Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:03:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail/majordomo (fwd) Message-ID: <199709221703.TAA03681@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Steve Hovey's message of Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:05:25 -0400 (EDT) References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970922090510.18008C-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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> > > 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 for a space. > > Is this a sendmail thing? Replacing the chars with the =ascii code? I don't know which part of your mail setup that does this - probably sendmail - but the characters are called Quoted Printable characters, and that is a part of the MIME standard. If you've got something that do MIME, that is probably responsible for this - you'll have to set it 8-bit transparent to stop the conversion. Mail User Agents (your basic mail-reading program) should convert this back, making it invisible to you - but obviously they're not doing a good enough job of it. Eivind.
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