On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> Sorry to ask but I have a problem where a properly encoded message 
> sent through exim appears then with completely mangled characters (in 
> iso-8859-2 encoding). The message is taken from mysql database and 
> then sent to exim for relaying to the end user. The application that 
> I used to test exim forwards thousands of such messages to another 
> mail server on a daily basis and never such a problem. Is it possible 
> that exim mangles message body? I thought mail servers don't do that.

Exim does not touch message bodies, except for the conversion of line 
endings. It does not even take any special action for 8-bit characters.

> I can provide an example of a message delivered by exim but I was not 
> sure whether this list accepts attachments so I can send it off list. 
> Thank you very much!

Check exactly what software the message passed through on its way from 
the source to the destination.

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