From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 22:17: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B5414A1D for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA18258; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:46:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:46:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Handy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: quoted-printable email Message-ID: <19990921144636.O55065@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Handy on Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 10:48:54PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: The address 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 erreichen. Die Adresse 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