Bug#445013: switching from exim to postfix

[Riku Voipio]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:33:54PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> fwiw, there's just (as in within the past couple of hours) been a change
> committed upstream which defaults accept_8bitmime to true.

Good news.

As mentioned on bug #445013:

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> accept_8bitmime = true

> I would actually recommend setting this to true by default, since it
> no longer breaks anything nowadays, but since technically it is
> a violation of RFC 2821, it may prove controversial.

We are not going to do this unless upstream changes the default.
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Would it now be acceptable to change the default in exim of debian
as well? Or will we wait till the upstream commit becomes part of a
release?

Riku