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_________________________________________________________________ Join the world..<offending character removed>....s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com the "apostrophe" s is in fact not an apostrophe, but [extended-ascii] character 146 (I believe this may be referred to as the left hand single quote) and thus all hotmail with such a tail is invalid. Amazing.... Same problem occurs from Yahoo mail also, when typing. Appears 'various' versions of windows (character set in the browser set to encoding "western european (windows)" cause the same character to be delivered when typing a contraction (e.g. I'm) -- ************************************************************************ Andy Burnette - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Varshavchik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Courier Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:53 AM Subject: [courier-users] Re: Problems with Hotmail and required MIME headers > Pascal Bleser writes: > > > I'm having a quite strange problem with mails being sent from Hotmail: > > the messages cannot be sent and return the following error message: > > > > Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com > > Received-From-MTA: dns;mail.hotmail.com > > Arrival-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:23:45 -0800 > > > > Final-Recipient: rfc822;OUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS_IS_HERE > > Action: failed > > Status: 5.0.0 > > Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-This message has 8-bit content, but does not have the required MIME > > PELINING > > 250-8BITMIME > > 250-SIZE > > 250 DSN > > 0700 > > > > I found the following message in my Courier log: > > Nov 15 21:58:57 server_web courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:195.74.212.41,from=<THE_SENDER>: > > 550-This message has 8-bit content, but does not have the required MIME > > Nov 15 21:58:57 server_web courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:195.74.212.41,from=<THE_SENDER>: > > 550-headers. Sorry, this mail server does not accept mail without the > > Nov 15 21:58:57 server_web courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:195.74.212.41,from=<THE_SENDER>: > > 550-required MIME headers. See <URL:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2045.txt> > > Nov 15 21:58:57 server_web courieresmtpd: error,relay=::ffff:195.74.212.41,from=<THE_SENDER>: 550 > > for more information. > > > > Is there any workaround for this ? > > No. It's a Hotmail bug. > > -- > Sam > > > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
