Hi!
30-Июл-2006 12:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Tertling) wrote to
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net:
AT> mails). I turned out that it is a problem with the mail server that
AT> received the mails from the mailing list for me. I had to switch to a
[...]
AT> message-mime-parts. Sendmail on its behalf converts such only if the
AT> subject field contains base64 without a proper ISO type...
"base64" says it all, and reasons behind troubles is known. Issue is
that
- my mail contains 8-bit characters (see Russian month name in date in
third line);
- SMTP server tries to send SF;
- SF notifies, that it "non 8-bit compatible" (very strange property for
it!);
- server converts letter to base64 before really sending letter to SF.
Now, when client receives such letter, its client should convert back to
text. For example, excerpt from header of my previous letter, which I just
receive:
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by relay42.mos.ru id k6UAlZ6T022413
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
And, if server or client is buggy, then you under trouble. There is some
ways to fix this:
1. users shouldn't use 8-bit characters in letters. This is not fix, this is
bad workaround.
2. SF should turn on 8-bit compatibility (I suggest, this is question of
only one line in config files).
3. Readers should use bugless servers and clients.
I think, (2) and (3) are right (and best) solutions, whereas (2) is simplest
and should be enough in given case.
PS: Jim, may you contact with SF tech support about this issue? This is very
annoying "feature" of SF mail servers.
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