Date: 25 Nov 2002 15:52:42 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find abandoned packages Message-ID: <ylisyl6wc5.syl@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021125214747.GB667@gothmog.gr> References: <000801c2915e$be8907c0$6400a8c0@windows> <9eel9eaber.l9e@localhost.localdomain> <20021125091339.GR77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <tpfztp8m6a.ztp@localhost.localdomain> <20021125214747.GB667@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: > It is also true though, that flawed mail clients can push down into > the connection to their outgoing SMTP server messages that do not have > proper headers to allow the server to parse and convert the 8-bit > characters correctly. This is often cause by either a) bugs in the > mail client software, or b) misconfigured clients. I thought SMTP mail servers didn't touch the body of messages. One mail client encodes stuff via MIME protocols to 7-bit data which it places in the body, servers pass it around (changing headers), and another client decodes the 7-bit body via MIME. You seem to imply that servers mess with the body. Why would it need to? Mind explaining? > Outlook is infamous for its habit of sending 8-bit characters > unencoded in MIME messages that lack proper Content-Type: headers. > The result is rather interesting to look upon, when the message passes > through multiple SMTP servers, with different settings each. I didn't realize that the other poster was referring to MIME mail (partially because the message I complained about didn't use MIME). Yes, I've seen really messed up MIME mail. But are you sure that the 8-bit data was put there by SMTP servers, or by the receiving client which has been confused by MSFT-errant headers or by the MSFT client that didn't properly 7-bit-encode it to begin with? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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