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Re: testing vger handling of charsets (part 1)

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JHJan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date
May 15, 2007, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20070515181207.GC3653@efreet.light.src>
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<20070515test.1@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:12:05 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
Show 8 quoted lines
> This is a test message to check how vger reacts to seeing 8bit
> characters (like Hasselström) in a message without the right mime
> header. Previous attempts were eaten by the list because of a lack of a
> message id.
> 
> If your mail server doesn't advertise the 8BITMIME extensions, I expect
> this message to be corrupted to iso8859-1 during the smtp conversation
> between vger and your server, because it lacks a mime version header.
To me it arrived via vger only, including the ö, with
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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Message 4 of 6 in “testing vger handling of charsets (part 1)”
  1. Jeff KingMay 15, 2007
  2. Karl HasselströmMay 15, 2007
  3. J. Bruce FieldsMay 15, 2007
  4. Jan HudecMay 15, 2007
  5. Alex RiesenMay 15, 2007
  6. David KågedalMay 15, 2007

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