Information About

8bitmime

CATEGORIES ABOUT 8BITMIME

internet standards

SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

At least the following servers advertise the 8BITMIME extension:

Courier

ESMTP {Link without Title}

IIS SMTP Service

Maillennium {Link without Title}

Novell GroupWise

Postfix

Sendmail (since 6.57)

The following servers can be configured to advertise 8BITMIME, but do not fully implement the standard:

Exim (eight-bit clean, but does not translate eight-bit messages to seven-bit when relaying to non-8BITMIME peers)

Qmail (does not translate eight-bit messages to seven-bit when relaying to non-8BITMIME peers, as is required by the RFC [http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html )

As of June 2005 , the following servers do not implement the extension:

Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service (through version 5.5)

Apache James {Link without Title} (planned)

Netscape Messaging Server 4.15

SEE ALSO

List Of Mail Servers

RFC 3516, IMAP 4 Binary Content Extension