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by gumby 1040 days ago
Does smtp have another mode other than text?
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bawolff 1040 days ago
SMTP generally assumes you only have 7bit transfer. You have to negotiate a protocol extension (8bitmime) to send bytes with a leading 1.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6152

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