[Mailman-Developers] Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding headers

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:48:06 +0400 
Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com> wrote:

>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r

> And, as our users use different MUA, Content-Transfer-Encoding may
> well be different from 8bit, and it's usually equal to base64 or
> quoted-printable.

Mailman will nto help you here.  You need to use an external
archiver that handles character set definitions properly.  MHonArc
is such an animal:

  http://www.mhonarc.org/

> The problem is two folded.  The mailing list engine just appends
> footer maillist administrator creates and this usually results in
> garbage...

This is a known problem as the list signature code is not MIME
aware.  The only useful solution is to turn off list signatures.

-- 
J C Lawrence                                 Home: claw@kanga.nu
---------(*)                               Other: coder@kanga.nu
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/        Keys etc: finger claw@kanga.nu
--=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--