keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (12/29/90)
Archive-name: mail/smtp/8-bit-sendmail/1990-12-27 Archive: dkuug.dk:/pub/sm5.64.8+bit.pa [129.142.96.41] Original-posting-by: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Original-subject: Re: International character set requirements needed Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen) writes: >< From: heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) >< I can see no reason at all for some stupid mailers to strip off the >< eighth bit (including Interactive's version of sendmail). They don't >< have to - and should not - interpret the contents of the mail they are >< transmitting. This is quite different from the troff situation where a >< program has to know a lot about it's input set. So why don't you guys >< simply open up your mailers and be ready with a 8-bit clean version by >< the end of 1991! >1991? Why not now? The System V release 4.0 mail program is completely 8-bit >clean! (If you can find anyplace within SVr4 mail which isn't, I'll >personally guarantee that the next version of mail which comes from UNIX >System Laboratories will have a fix for the problem.) I have also done patches to sendmail 5.61 and 5.64 to do 8-bit mail. The patches require that you also have IDA installed. Actually it handles quite some different 8-bit character sets like 8859-1 8859-2 and the rest of the 8859 family and vendor character sets like the IBM codepages. In all about 60 character sets are supported in the current release. >By the way, the SMTP protocol doesn't permit 8-bit data. This limits mailers >which must send mail using that protocol. My package also has provisions for sending 8-bit mail thru 7-bit SMTP in an "encoded ASCII" mode. My package is avaliable in dkuug.dk:pub/sm.8+bit.pa sm5.64.8+bit.pa and ch.shar by anon ftp. By mail you can get it by mailing mail uunet!dkuug.dk!archive Subject: files pub Names: sm.8+bit.pa sm5.64.8+bit.pa ch.shar Its about 100 kb. Enjoy! Keld Simonsen