From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 10:03:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA29102 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA29097 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA03681; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:03:27 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:03:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199709221703.TAA03681@bitbox.follo.net> From: Eivind Eklund To: Steve Hovey CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Steve Hovey's message of Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:05:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: sendmail/majordomo (fwd) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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.