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Re: testing vger handling of charsets (part 2)

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 16, 2007, 10:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20070516105700.GB30256@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20070516092915.GA10660@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
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> The strange thing is, that I got it from vger -- with 
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> Therefore either:
>  - It's not vger, but some other mail software, that munges it.
>  - Some software on my side correctly guesses that it should have been
>    utf-8, but I don't really believe that.
It's option 3:
  - vger selectively munges based on whether your server claims 8BITMIME
    during the SMTP EHLO. So some list members never saw this issue at
    all.
-Peff
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  1. Jeff KingMay 15, 2007
  2. Karl HasselströmMay 15, 2007
  3. J. Bruce FieldsMay 15, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2007
  5. Jan HudecMay 16, 2007
  6. Jeff KingMay 16, 2007
  7. Jeff KingMay 16, 2007

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