Re: Zmailer and Majordomo troubles

Alain Knaff (knaff@imag.fr)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:47:59 +0100

> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:02:43 +0100
> From: Alain KNAFF <knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr>
>
> =A0I wonder why all my mail from the linux mailing list goes
> through erm1.u-strasbg.fr ? If mailers which don't announce
> themselves as 8BITMIME are frowned upon, and "punished" with QP,
> why are they used as exploders then?
>
>I needed exploders, and I needed them badly. So any piece of crap
>machine that was willing to push mail for me I accepted, no questions
>asked. It was important to get vger running smoothly asap.
>"convenience" items like 8bitmime etc. was secondary for the decision
>making.

 If this convenience is secondary, why then does vger's zmailer try to
"punish" erm1 for the lack of 8bitmime? Take your pick: either
consider strict mime compliance as a must, and then don't use those
"crap machines" as exploders, or else consider strict mime compliance
as optional, and then don't mangle 8 bit messages. Just don't have it
both ways :)

Thanks in advance,

Alain