Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:46:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quoted-printable email Message-ID: <19990921144636.O55065@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909202240030.67772-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>; from Brian Handy on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 10:48:54PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909202240030.67772-100000@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
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On Monday, 20 September 1999 at 22:48:54 -0600, Brian Handy wrote: > Hey All, > > Running -current, got a basic (?) sendmail question for some guru... > > I got an email from someone, in some sort of Japanese format. Normally I > have no problem receiving and reading Japanese email, but this one came > through with this dreaded bit in the header: > > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lambic.physics.montana.edu id QAA03355 There's nothing to dread here. > What the heck's that about? Any ideas? I don't see the obvious > answer in the sendmail man pages. I heard a rumor from someone that > there's a program that will unmangle this, any suggestions? It seems that you have a problem with reading this message. But it has nothing to do with this header: it just tells you that it (successfully) converted the format from the older quoted-printable format, in which special characters were written in hex (for example, space became =20), to a clear 8 bit format. I get a lot of messages like this, mainly from European countries, and they're all as legible as the originator makes them. Here's an example: X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freebie.lemis.com id QAA64276 Status: RO Content-Length: 998 Lines: 34 Dear sir, as of today, you can reach me at the following new e-mail address: <foo> The address <bar> will be deleted by the end of September 1999. -.--.-..-.--.-..-.--.-..-.--.-..-.--.-.. Sehr geehrter Damen und Herren, ab sofort können Sie mich unter den neuen E-Mail Adresse <foo> erreichen. Die Adresse <bar> wird Ende September gelöscht. The special characters in the German version require some non-ASCII representation. Nowadays, it's ISO 8859-1 (and this message will come in this encoding because of these characters). Older software used quoted-printable. I suspect that your real problem is that the message is written in Japanese. You'll need at least Japanese fonts to read it (as well as a knowledge of Japanese :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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