Everything about 8bitmime totally explained
8BITMIME (RFC 1652) is an
SMTP extension standardized in
1994 that facilitates the exchange of
e-mail messages containing octets outside the seven-bit
ASCII range. Prior to the availability of 8BITMIME implementations,
mail user agents employed several techniques to cope with the seven-bit limitation, including
binary-to-text encodings and
UTF-7. However, each of these workarounds necessarily inflates the bandwidth of non-ASCII transmissions.
At least the following servers advertise the 8BITMIME extension:
The following servers can be configured to advertise 8BITMIME, but don't fully implement the standard:
Exim (eight-bit clean, but doesn't translate eight-bit messages to seven-bit when relaying to non-8BITMIME peers)
qmail (does not translate eight-bit messages to seven-bit when relaying to non-8BITMIME peers, as is required by the RFC (External Link
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As of June 2005, the following servers don't implement the extension:
Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service (through version 5.5)
Netscape Messaging Server 4.15Further Information
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