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Re: MIME autoconversion
- To: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Subject: Re: MIME autoconversion
- From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p dot dalgaard at kubism dot ku dot dk>
- Date: 25 Sep 1997 23:08:15 +0200
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <009BAC1F.FBC7F160.23958@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> it is questionable whether the job offer belongs to this mailing list,
> but I really wonder why the mail server converts forth and back?
> : Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> : X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by cygnus.com id CAA27167
> : Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> : X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by cygnus.com id CAB27175
This makes perfectly good sense to me - incoming sendmail converts QP
to 8bit - outgoing converts 8 bit to QP. Business as usual for an
8-bit site on a 7-bit net...
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