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From: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sendmail CANNOT transfer 8-bits characters
Date: 14 Aug 1996 19:14:32 +0200
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Hello!

In article <32110837.E28@vitek.com.tw>, Stone  <stone@vitek.com.tw> wrote:
>When we use my BSDI system as the mail outgoing server we found that it CANNOT 
>transfer 8 bits character. If anyone has suggestion on this. Thank you very much.

Sendmail *can* transfer 8bit characters in the body, but not in the
header. See also the documentation on O EightBitMode (assuming, it's
sendmail 8.7.*)...

Regards, Felix.