Re: [exim] exim altering message body?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Zbigniew Szalbot
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim altering message body?
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:

> Sorry to ask but I have a problem where a properly encoded message
> sent through exim appears then with completely mangled characters (in
> iso-8859-2 encoding). The message is taken from mysql database and
> then sent to exim for relaying to the end user. The application that
> I used to test exim forwards thousands of such messages to another
> mail server on a daily basis and never such a problem. Is it possible
> that exim mangles message body? I thought mail servers don't do that.


Exim does not touch message bodies, except for the conversion of line
endings. It does not even take any special action for 8-bit characters.

> I can provide an example of a message delivered by exim but I was not
> sure whether this list accepts attachments so I can send it off list.
> Thank you very much!


Check exactly what software the message passed through on its way from
the source to the destination.

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