Non-ASCII chars in MAIL FROM envelope

[Rob Mueller]

>> Can you turn off the 8BITMIME extension that postfix advertises? It seems
>> from the RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4952), if 8BITMIME isn't
>
> That seems to be the right logic but I can't find the proper way to do it
> with postfix.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure about the whole 8BITMIME thing and whether it counts
> for message content or envelope or both?
> It it counts for both, why does Cyrus lmtp advertise 8BITMIME and then
> refuses to accept mail with 8bit envelope.
> I'm really confused and from looking at different list archives I see that
> I'm not alone.

Agreed.

>From what I can see, the original 8BITMIME extension was 8-bit message 
content, but has been updated to include 8-bit SMTP transaction envelopes as 
well. It might be a mismatch between that over time (eg postfix changed at 
2.4.5 as well)

Rob