Re: How is EAI mail implemented ?

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:49:25 -0400

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John Levine writes:

> It appears that Sam Varshavchik  <[email protected]> said:
> >A few months ago someone @icann.org contacted me regarding "UASG030 EAI
> >Testing Results for Courier". After swapping a few messages, the upshot was
> >that, apparently, the testing apparatus that was employed in that endeavor
> >expected SMTPUTF8 senders specify the UTF8 flag on anything that's sent to a
> >receiver that advertises SMTPUTF8, even if it's pure ASCII.
>
> The person running the tests these days is me, and that's the exact
> opposite of what the tests are looking for, that it *doesn't* send the
> UTF8 flag on ASCII mail. I didn't run the tests on Courier, but I
> think the people who did checked correctly.

It's possible that I interpreted the results incorrectly. It was mostly a  
somewhat cryptic data dump, whose contents was not immediately obvious. It's  
also possible I'm misremembering the whole thing, since I don't see the code  
change that I thought was made.

> By the way, last time I checked, when Courier adds a Received line it says
> UTF8ESMTP rather than UTF8SMTP.  Did you ever get around to fixing that?  It
> looks like a one or two line fix.  Exim had the same bug.

Yup, I got around to it.

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