Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:04:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: davidn@freefall.freebsd.org (David Nugent) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field Message-ID: <199612182104.OAA10394@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612181348.FAA06937@freefall.freebsd.org> from "David Nugent" at Dec 19, 96 00:48:41 am
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> I've been entertaining the idea of having pw(8) allow 8-bit > characters in the passwd GECOS field. It was suggested earlier > that this might cause problems in email, but as far as I can > determine, sendmail handles this correctly by conversion to > quoted-printable. Other MIME mailers seem to do much the same > thing (ie. zmailer 2.99.x). Whether or not this is readable > on the receiving system depends of course on the character-set > header, but this becomes more an issue to do with user/system > configuration. This assumes that it supports the ESMTP extention "8BITMIME"; the unextended RFC821 (minimal implementation, no RFC1425 "EHLO") does not allow 8 bit characters. You might also see problems with POP3 (but not IMAP4). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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