Well, I don't really know anything about this business, but (that hasn't
stopped me before!) (1) aren't attachments sent MIME-encoded? and (2) isn't
MIME encoding designed to use ONLY the first 128 ASCII characters, for
compatibility with other character sets? and (3) couldn't the presence of
high-bit (CHR$(n) with n>128) or "special" characters followed by a MIME
block confuse the mail server?
--Cal Frye, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Walter Saarimaa
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:58 PM
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Special characters & attachments
I've asked about this same problem recently and got no result. Even IPSwitch
KB has no help for this problem.
Problem is as follows:
When I send a message witch has an attachment (att type doesn't matter) and
message body contains ANY!!(?) special characters.
All special characters has been converted to something else in repicient
end.
Could someone test also this problem. This problem occurs in our mail (imail
6.0) and also in Ron's mail system (mail.hksi.net) witch has Imail 6.02. One
result of the test can be found in that place. Message subject: attachments
with scandinavian characters
page 2 in Main mailbox
Test using characters like these ������������������
This problem also occurs when sending messages like this to Userid -> Userid
(local mail) without going thru any other gateway software than ipswitch.
This is very fustrating for our users 'cause we use lots of special
characters in our language and when message contains an attachment it isn't
anymore readable.
Help! .. please
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Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute
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