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Lamson still drops email that it can't transcode, rather than preserve the octets from the wire. Shaw is on record as believing this is acceptable behavior. Ple
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
Lamson still drops email that it can't transcode, rather than preserve the octets from the wire. Shaw is on record as believing this is acceptable behavior. Please make sure your users agree before you run it.
- alnayyir 16y agoSo change the code.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoHe did it so all the rest of Lamson could assume any message can be represented by Unicode strings. I think it would take a rewrite and I doubt he would merge the changes. And like MySQL, I would never fully trust the system, knowing what I do of the authors' priorities.
- dagw 16y agoAny links to how and why it does this? Lamson looked like something I might have a use for, but that sounded a bit scary.
- prodigal_erik 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658267 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658267 where he asks in english not whether this fails (he already knows it does) but how often http://lamsonproject.org/docs/unicode_encoding_and_decoding.html http://lamsonproject.org/docs/unicode_encoding_and_decoding....
- mahmud 16y agoEmail is infrastructure software and some of the MTAs that are 10+ years old still don't do it well enough. Wrap Postfix, Exim or Qmail with your own business-logic interface and sleep well at night.