Bug#445013: Please allow easy enabling of 8bitmime

[Marc Haber]

tags #445013 wontfix

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:40:15PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Please allow easy configuring of the accept_8bitmime flag in
> update-exim4.conf.conf.  On all my machines, I have to manually add
> a file
> 
>   /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/00local
> 
> with the single line
> 
>   accept_8bitmime = true

That one is an acceptable fix. We're not going to add a new Debconf
question.

> I would actually recommend setting this to true by default, since it
> no longer breaks anything nowadays, but since technically it is
> a violation of RFC 2821, it may prove controversial.

We are not going to do this unless upstream changes the default.

Greetings
Marc

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