Steve, thank you for your reply:
The accounting system's Java applet which communicates
to both sendmail and qmail (depending on which address
you send to) is the same and generates the account
data from from a database. This data is then sent by
e-mail using this applet client to talk to the mail
server.
My reference to sendming to qmail directly was that
the test 1) was to e-mail address user@qmailhost,
whereas in 2) it was to user@sendmailrelay,
sendmailrelay would then pass this email on to
user@qmailhost.
As mentioned before, sendmail appears to handle the
input from the mail client, but qmail does not.
If anyone could give me some pointers as to what I
should check in my qmail configuration, to eliminate
qmail as a suspect, I would appreciate it.
Thank you.
--- Steve Tylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't know if it helps or not - I have the �
> (Sterling sign) in the
> email that you sent, and have 2 qmail relays in
> front of me.
> [If the � sign is not valid above, let me know - I
> have a netscape
> client talking to a qmail server...]
>
> So - it seems to me that qmail is not corrupting the
> sign as
> a transport.
>
> That would leave the initial dumping of the input
> text into
> the message body as the corrupter.
>
> When you say "send the message directly to qmail"
> what do
> you mean (as opposed to sending it to sendmail)? I
> would
> hazard an educated guess that the mechanism is
> different,
> and the problem is introduced there.
>
> not a qmail expert, but I like to turn over rocks;-)
> steve
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> mwangu wrote:
> >
> > I must be doing something wrong then.
> >
> > 1) When I send the same message directly to qmail.
> I
> > get no Sterling signs.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > If my statment below was incorrect, then please
> > explain to me how this is.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --- Paul Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > At 5:03 AM -0700 6/15/00, mwangu wrote:
> > > >To add to the info,
> > > >
> > > >I am being forced to work with a legacy
> accounting
> > > >system with a mail client which is incapable of
> adding
> > > >MIME headers to emails as appropriate. When
> qmail
> > > >recieves the e-mail it strips out the �
> (Sterling
> > > >sign) and replaces with (? or #).
> > >
> > > No, it doesn't. qmail doesn't touch the content
> of
> > > email, and is 8-bit clean.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >We currenlty send the messages to a sendmail
> host
> > > >first and then accept relay them to qmail. Due
> to
> > > >budget cuts, I have to give up the sendmail
> host, and
> > > >would like to receive mail directly to qmail
> ... is
> > > >this possible?
> > >
> > > sendmail may be doing it. Or it might be one of
> the
> > > clients on either end.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Thank you
> > > >
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> > >
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