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Re: Help with vger's rules, was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.10.2

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 3, 2016, 16:51 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.20.1611031750590.3108@virtualbox>
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<20161103153845.nhquuoko4utecit2@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi Peff,
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:34:53AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > This is missing a Content-Transfer-Encoding. I think the default is the
> > traditional 7-bit ascii encoding, but your body has characters with the
> > high-bit set (your UTF-8 bullet).
> > 
> > Try adding:
> > 
> >   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > 
> > I haven't seen this before, but I do recall that vger's MTA is very
> > picky about this and wants to rewrite transfer-encodings, so it seems
> > plausible.
> 
> Technically, I think you'd also need a:
> 
>   MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> header.
That seems to have done the trick, thank you so much!

Ciao, Dscho

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