[Mailman-Users] Base64 Encoding -Greek characters- Part of theproblem solved

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Sat Apr 28 19:54:29 CEST 2007


test at social.soc.uoc.gr wrote:
>
>I've managed to solve the biggest part of the problem. The problem was
>initiated by Mailscanner. For every email in my mail server, the header of
>every email was modified and lines like the following were added:
>
>"X-Faculty of Social Sciences-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the
>ISP for more information X-Faculty of Social Sciences-MailScanner: Found
>to be clean X-Faculty of Social Sciences-MailScanner-From:
>test at social.soc.uoc.gr
>X-Spam-Status: No"
>
>For some reason this caused mailman to encode emails with base64, so being
>unreadable by the recipients.
>I reconfigured Mailscanner so as the headers are not modified and my
>(happy) recipients can now read the emails.


This will only work if both msg_header and msg_footer are empty and
scrub_nondigest is No. Even in this case, There will be an issue with
the plain format digest if the character set of the list's
preferred_language does not support Greek characters.

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