Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:03:41 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > That's the buffer through which we communicate with the SMTP server,
> > right?  If so, AFAIK the whole protocol is pure ASCII.
> 
> Not if the binary extensions in RFC-3030 are in effect. However, the
> gnu.org MX server eggs.gnu.org does not appear to have this extension
> enabled. If you assume ASCII, you need to ensure that the mail server
> never enables those options.

Are you talking about BINARYMIME?  If so, isn't the sender (i.e. Emacs
and specifically smtpmail.el) supposed to request that extension?

If I'm right, and Emacs needs to request that feature, then this has
no relevance on the issue at hand, because smtpmail doesn't request
BINARYMIME and in fact doesn't even support it.

Or am I missing something?