The only thing you can do is create a registry entry with names of
x-unknown, X-Unknown, X_UNKNOWN, and so on, and map it to US-ASCII. It's
nothing but a band-aid though.
The sender is violating the MIME RFC by using an invalid character set.
Other than the hacking described, you're powerless.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bourque Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:25 PM
Subject: Unknown character type...
>
> From time to time, I am receiving msg that the IMC can't convert and send
as
> an attachment. I understand that it don't know how to convert a specific
> character set but this is annoying to me and my users are afraid it's a
> virus or whatever...
>
> The last one had that in the header:
>
>
> >>Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0109140820001.14641-100000@mail>
> >>MIME-Version: 1.0
> >>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN
> >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
>
> It seem that charset=X-UNKNOWN is the problem. Any idea on what to do so
> that at least those e-mail are convert to US-ASCII?
>
>
>
> Daniel Bourque
> Analyste - Centre d'Assistance Technique
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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