Re: [Exim] 8 bit characters in plain text ail

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: mike
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New-Topics: Re: [Exim] 8 bit characters in plain text ail
Subject: Re: [Exim] 8 bit characters in plain text ail
On 17 Nov 2000, mike wrote:

> I a having great problems with sending 8 bit characters (specifically a
> pound sign) n plain text e-mail.


Exim neither knows nor cares what is in the body of the message.

> I seem to be be going round in crcles a bt I assume that if it is
> possible t would be something to do with the headers.


Ah. Don't put unencoded 8 bit characters into headers. There are
standard encoding schemes for this. Is there an MUA which really
puts 8bit things into headers? I didn't think that even Outhouse did
that. Is it Lotus Notes?

-j

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