Re: enable 8 bits

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<37e2a657-9cb2-4ee8-bfd0-51a2c2928d97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tester wrote:

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How can I enable 8 bits transmission through sendmail 8.13.8 in FC6,
what do I need to do in sendmail configurtion?

That's more a mail user agent (MUA or the mail client) issue than a
mail _transport_ agent issue.

Start with two or three RFCs

0821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. J. Postel. August 1982. (Format:
TXT=124482 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0788) (Obsoleted by RFC2821) (Also
STD0010) (Status: STANDARD)

2821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. J. Klensin, Ed.. April 2001.
(Format: TXT=192504 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0821, RFC0974, RFC1869,
STD0010) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

3030 SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME
Messages. G. Vaudreuil. December 2000. (Format: TXT=23405 bytes)
(Obsoletes RFC1830) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

(but you may also want to glance at RFC0822 and/or RFC2822), and the
Sendmail FAQ (http://www.sendmail.org/faq/faq.txt), and finally
wander over to the Usenet newsgroup 'comp.mail.sendmail'.

Is it only the email body this will apply to or the subject header as
well?

See RFC0821 and RFC2821. The "Subject:" line is part of the body as far
as mail transport is concerned. (For mail, the _envelope_ sender and
recipient are identified by the SMTP "MAIL FROM:" and "RCPT TO:"
headers, which show up in the delivered mail as the "Return-Path:" and
first "Received:" headers. EVERYTHING ELSE is part of the SMTP "DATA".
It is your mail _client_ that separates out the "Subject:", "From:",
"To:" "Date:" and similar headers from the "body" of the message.

Old guy
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