Date: 29 Feb 1996 21:12:12 GMT
Message-ID: <19960229211212.20787.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu>
From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: comments from a newcomer

> You can't crash them, but they won't pass the data unmangled.

But that's a different issue.

There are relays that mangle NUL; should SMTP prohibit sending NUL?

> Sendmail never ignored it and has been the most popular MTA -- I don't
> recall it passing eight bit data until the standards recently allowed
> it via extensions.

sendmail V8 transmits 8-bit data by default (in violation of RFC 821,
of course). This has been default since version 6.57.

> > Why are you deliberately making de jure standards that don't match the
> > de facto standards?
> None of this is new.

I know. That doesn't answer the question.

---Dan