Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:44:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail/majordomo (fwd) Message-ID: <199709221644.JAA26893@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970922090510.18008C-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from "Steve Hovey" at Sep 22, 97 09:05:25 am
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Steve Hovey wrote: > > > I got a problem that I think is sendmail doing me. > > I use majordomo for mailing lists, and if a user has odd chars in the real > name portion of their from: address - such as accented letters, majordomo > will mis-send it out, and the original headers get replacement chars - > like =20 for a space. > > Is this a sendmail thing? Replacing the chars with the =ascii code? wow.....8th bit set on characters in the email address. from a practical point of view there are *many* mail systems and mailers that will not handle this correctly. sendmail will send 8 bit characters using either the smtp or the esmtp mailer, i believe, but talk about asking to be whacked. replacing the 8th bit character with =xx is a mime quoted-printable replacement. appeal to the user to be more flexible in either email address ;) jmb
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