Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:51:05 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@suscom.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: `Content-Transfer-Encoding' & SendMail Message-ID: <20050719184632.ABDE.GERARD-SEIBERT@suscom.net> In-Reply-To: <42DD0B20.6030006@mac.com> References: <20050719094641.3355.GERARD-SEIBERT@suscom.net> <42DD0B20.6030006@mac.com>
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On Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:16:00 AM Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > [ ...relaying email via your ISP... ] > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > I do not want to use that encoding specifically at all times. Even when > > set within my mail program for something else, such as 8-bit, it is > > still converted to the above format. > > > > What can I do to prevent this from happening? > > Nothing, really. Any MTA along the delivery path is allowed to change the > encoding to quoted-printable, and many MTA's will do so even if the other side > advertizes the 8BITMIME ESMTP extension. > > You can avoid seeing that header if you send mail that does not contain > non-printable characters, or if the receiving MTA converts the mail back to an > 8-bit format. > > -- > -Chuck ********** Reply Separator ********** Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:46:32 PM If I send a message through my ISP and do not use SendMail, the mail arrives as I sent it. If I throw SendMail into the mix, it always arrives as quoted-printable. I checked with my ISP. They claim that the mail is being changed on my end. They do not alter the Content-Transfer-Encoding method. -- Gerard E. Seibert gerard-seibert@suscom.net
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