Re: testing vger handling of charsets (part 2)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 16, 2007, 06:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmz05ffad.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070515test.2@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> This is a test message to check how vger reacts to seeing 8bit
> characters (like Hasselström) in a message _with_ the right mime
> header.
>
> If your mail server doesn't advertise the 8BITMIME extensions, I expect
> this message to come through OK, since vger will (hopefully) respect the
> existing content-type header. Karl and Bruce, can you please report?

I think you are trying to figure out how vger adds/munges the headers, and the above is not very useful for people but yourself unless you explicitly say what headers you gave on your end in the body of the message, is it?

Judging from the list responses, I am guessing the situation is like this. Does that match your understanding?

botched one:

	outgoing:
        	body in utf-8
        	Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
                no MIME-Version: header

	vger relayed to recipients:
        	body untouched
                Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
                MIME-Version: 1.0

good one:

	outgoing:
        	body in utf-8
        	Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
                MIME-Version: 1.0

	vger relayed to recipients: everything intact.

I am not sure what exactly you meant by with/without "the right mime header", but the above is based on my guess that you meant only MIME-VERSION header.