Re: [Exim] Extreme weirdness

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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Extreme weirdness
Quoth James Cronin on Mon, Feb 14, 2000:
> I don't think we were suggesting that it's a fault at exim.org, but
> I see this quite a lot when receiving MIME mails that have
> charsets different from my own. (but not everytime) I've never seen it
> on a mail that didn't have a MIME header.
>
> The mail that you just sent (which was similarly trashed) had the following
> MIME headers:
>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Whereas I'm using ISO-88wotsit.


Exim doesn't look at MIME (or into the body of the message, in
general) at all. Sendmail tends to mangle MIME (translating from
base64 to 8bitmime and/or back and similar stuff). It may be
Mailman, but I don't know it to say for sure.

> Could be the Cisco PIX's, but I instinctively doubt that, a lot of people
> use that feature.


What's PIX?

Vadik.

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