Re: Split Newsgroups line and faq-server

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Martin Leese - OMG (mleese@omg.unb.ca)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:59:28 -0400 (AST)

Pamela Greene <pgreene@optics.rochester.edu> wrote:
>> Somewhere between you and the faq-server, someone is MIME-encoding
>> your mail. We do plan to teach the faq-server about MIME, but for the
>> moment it's a bit of a stumblinbg block. The most likely culprit is
>> your mail composition software (i.e., Eudora, elm, pine, or whatever).
>> Try turning off whatever MIME or quoted-printable options you see.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, you probably have a rogue 8-bit character
>> somewhere your file: an accented letter, "smart" quotes, an em dash,
>> or even a nonbreaking space. Any 8-bit character will cause many
>> mailers to automatically MIME-encode the file before passing it along.
>> Remove it and your problem may be solved.

Yep, that was it. I use Mosaic to convert from HTML to text, and it
left in Copyright and Registered Trademark symbols.

I have been unable to replicate the problem mailing to places
other than MIT, so assumed the miscreant was a mailer at your
end. A SysAdmin at MIT confirmed this, but when I asked on the
comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup how to turn this off, I received no
response.

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> wrote:

|| Jess Anderson <anderson@macc.wisc.edu> writes:
|| > Wouldn't the mail user agent (or the editor it invokes) be the more
|| > likely culprit? I didn't think mail transfer agents diddled a message
|| > much other than Message-ID: From envelope line and a few other
|| > header lines (From: , Reply-To: etc.).
||
|| Ideally, MTAs do not muck with the body of a message, including the
|| header, although adding header fields such as Received is a good
|| thing.
||
|| Sendmail 8 can be configured to do quoted-printable encoding
|| since in many cases this is a good thing.

In this particular case, as the faq-server is not MIME aware, this
is a bad thing. How can sendmail 8 be configured *not* to do
quoted-printable encoding? (I can find no mention of this in the
documentation.)

Regards,
Martin
E-mail: mleese@unb.ca
WWW: http://www.omg.unb.ca/~mleese/
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