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SUMMARY: OSF sendmail with 8-bit data

Hold your horses - I have the answer, thanks!

That was a quick an easy one (FAQ for Europe?). I restarted sendmail with
option -o8, and now I'm running (non-standard) 8-bit ISO mail. Would be
nice to find this in the sendmail man page too...

Question:
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Does anyone know how to set the sendmail delivered with OSF1 (ver 1.3) to
leave 8-bit data unaltered and not set the 8th bit to zero (according to
RFC821)? 

Ansvers (compiled by me):
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cmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The simple solution is to upgrade to OSF1 2.0. 

"Didier Wagenknecht, Security Officer, ADM-SIC, EPFL" 
urban@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert L. Urban)
Jan Henriksen <Jan.Berger.Henriksen@xxxxxxxxx>
Hartmut Streppel <hst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Terje Sten Bjerkseth <tsb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Jan M. Holzer Digital-PCS GmbH Munich <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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                     Using DEC OSF/1 8-bit sendmail
  
        You can configure your sendmail to use 8bit char.
        but you should be aware of the following limitations/features.

                o It is not a recommended solution
                o It breaks RFC Compliance
                o There's NO official support for problems  (as far as I'm
                   aware) from the OSF mail group .


  You can configure sendmail to always allow 8-bit mail or you can
  select 8-bit mail by the mailer (the M lines in sendmail.cf).

  To configure sendmail to always allow 8-bit mail set the "8" option.
  To do this you add the line "O8" to your /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf
  file or startup sendmail with the "-o8" flag.
  
  If you wish to only allow 8-bit mail to selected mailers, add an "8"
  to the flags of all mailers you wish to allow 8-bit mail. For example,
  if you wish to allow 8-bit mail to your local mailer and mail to
  your local domain change the following lines in your sendmail.cf file:
  
  Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
  Mprog,  P=/bin/sh,   F=lsDFM,   S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
  Msmtpl, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h, E=\r\n
  
  To:
  
  Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMmn8, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u
  Mprog,  P=/bin/sh,   F=lsDFM8,   S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
  Msmtpl, P=[IPC], F=mDFMuX8, S=11, R=21, A=IPC $h, E=\r\n
  
  Mail to all other mailers will be 7-bit clean.  Remember that the "O8"
  option always allows 8-bit so if you are sending by mailer, the "O8"
  option should not be set.
  
  Remember, whenever you modify sendmail.cf you need to run the
  "/sbin/init.d/sendmail restart" command.
  
Side-effect: when the 8-bit options are enabled, the single character
quoting mechanism may not function correctly.
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Thanks again for quick answers,
Ulf

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Ulf Kronman                                             Systems Engineer      
KIBIC                                               Voice: +46 8 7286846
Box 200                                                Fax: +46 8 301739
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