On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 12:12, Jeff Jansen wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 14:34, Martin Furmanski wrote: > > I have a problem. When an attachments name contains an o with > > two dots above it, courier reformats the whole mail to an error and the > > original mail is attached in a file called message.txt. > > <short answer> > Put "opt BOFHBADMIME=accept" into the "bofh" file in your courier 'etc' > directory. That will solve the problem. > </short answer> > > <long answer> > This is a very common problem. The o umlaut character is a high ascii > character, that is 8-bit, not normal 7-bit. So the mail client should create > the proper MIME headers explaining that this message contains 8-bit content > and should be treated appropriately. But many clients don't bother. They > label the message standard "text", which is it NOT. > > Courier sees that the message itself does not match the stated encoding and > wraps the message as an attachment. This is "The Right Thing" to do. > Unfortunately it's a case where doing the right thing will get you lots of > support calls from users who don't care that their messages are wrongly > encoded - they just want to see them, even if a wrongly encoded message can > cause their client to choke. (They'll call you about that too! ;-) > > So put "opt BOFHBADMIME=accept" into the "bofh" file in your courier 'etc' > directory and courier will simply pass these wrongly encoded message on as > is. This can (and does occasionally) cause mail clients to choke but it's > the lesser of two evils in most people's minds. > </long answer> >
This is the problem described in the FAQ as 'Courier delivers ESMTP mail with a strange error message'? The FAQ seems outdated: Solution: for now, manually edit SubmitFile::MessageEnd() in courier/submit2.C, and remove the code that reports both 8-bit related errors, RFC2045_ERR8BITHEADER and RFC2045_ERR8BITCONTENT (the first and the third error message). ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
