On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:54:18PM -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > Omar Thameen wrote: > > If anyone cares, the problem was that the signature delimiting string > > that we were using, "--+--" , was causing Hotmail display the message > > with 7bit encoded characters, regardless the encoding defined in the > > message headers. > > Then perhaps you should actually use the RFC-compliant signature > delimiter, two dashes (-) followed by one space followed by a newline.
That's not a bad idea, though it doesn't excuse Hotmail's inability to display the messages. The problems I see are: - I've only been able to find references to "-- " being a convention stemming from usenet, not a requirement (RFC 2646, 3676). - In practice, very few people/ISPs are using signatures so delimited. - Though I did say "signature", I meant to refer to the mandatory list unsubscribe information we append (which we want to strip out for archives). Perhaps it's better called a "trailer", with signatures remaining the superfluous information provided by the poster. Omar
