Oops, I meant to reply to the list, but I somehow only replied to the
sender of this particular e-mail, mod in this case.
Seems to be a case of: 1
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Derek
(for those not so mathematically inclined, 1/x is the *inverse* of x)
(for those completely befuddled by what I'm talking about, see the
gnhlug archives from 1999-2000 re: The Famous Derek Reply Problem :)
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:56:24 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:54:10 -0400
From: Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In a message dated: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:56:24 EDT
Michael O'Donnell said:
>I'm not really qualified to comment here, so I will...
[...snip...]
>That (undoubtedly flawless) logic would seem to leave
>Amanda as the culprit,
Except:
A. Amanda does nothing with MIME at all. All her mail reports
are plain ascii text. The code is actually nothing more than
an opened file handle to the system mailer, i.e. sendmail,
with a bunch of fprintf statements. (you can look at the code
in the $AMANDA_SRC/server-src/reporter.c file
B. Sendmail does nothing with the mail handed to it other than
deliver it to the recipients listed in the To: field which
is statically defined in the amanda.conf file (can be an alias).
Therefore, I suspect that the problem is not sendmail nor amanda, rather
the courier mail server.
It is entirely possible that Amanda is munging the mail into some kind
of MIME format, however, in the 5+ years of playing with amanda, and
being on the amanda-users and amanda-developers mailing lists, I've neither
seen nor heard of anyone ever complaining about amanda's mail coming through
as 8-bit (or any other kind of) MIME.
Additionally, a quick perusal of
http://www.courier-mta.org/intro.html
shows that courier supports:
* DSN, PIPELINING, and 8BITMIME ESMTP extension. Courier
automatically converts 8-bit messages to 7-bit encoding, for
relaying mail to external mail gateways.
And:
Courier will rewrite headers and MIME-ify messages whenever
appropriate. Header rewriting logic is hardcoded in C, there
is no header rewriting language as in sendmail. An interpreted
language imposes a drastic speed penalty. The rewriting
library is fairly simple, and the the standard rewriting rules
will do for most situations.
This information alone pretty much indicates to me that courier is
the culprit, since they admit they auto-MIMEify messages. Sounds more
like it's auto-HOSEifying them instead.
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Seeya,
Paul
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