At 5:38 AM -0700 6/15/00, mwangu wrote:
>I must be doing something wrong then.
No, you're expecting the wrong thing. Here's what I think is
happening, although it's been years since I allowed sendmail on any
machine that I control. As I recall, sendmail thinks it's just fine
to muck around with the contents of email. (My first order of
business after booting a new OS is to remove sendmail immediately.)
>
>1) When I send the same message directly to qmail. I
>get no Sterling signs.
qmail leaves the data untouched, and the software you're using to
view it doesn't know how to display the 8-bit character for pound
sign. (Use a Mac, for example, and you might run into the difference
between ISO and MacRoman, although your � below displayed properly on
my iBook.)
>
>2) When I send exactly the same message to a sendmail
>relay, which then sends to the qmail address in 1), I
>get Sterling signs.
sendmail "helpfully" changes the data, and the MIME encoding that
sendmail replaces the pound sign with is correctly interpreted by the
software you're using.
Use the proper tool to examine the data before making accusations.
(It's amazing how many people are so quick to accuse qmail of doing
things that it's not doing.) Use od(1) to examine the data before
and after you send it through the MTA. I think you'll find that
qmail leaves it alone, while sendmail changes it. qmail does *not*
change the content of email.
>
>If my statment below was incorrect, then please
>explain to me how this is.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>
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