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On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Simon Waters wrote:
On 28/02/13 08:41, Simon Waters wrote:Postfix sent these to myself fine, hopefully Icedove doesn't persist character set information in replies.Okay so the list's server encodes 8bit as base64.
Heh... in that email you sent, I see: X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by unicorn.drogon.net id r1S8fl9J014321
The mailman list says this is a "feature" of adding headers and footers when the default encoding is not utf-8 in the Python, or some such complexity. Apparently MIME headers and footers don't mess with the content as much. So basically looks like everything is 8bit clean, and almost nothing relies on it except Postfix. So as always seems to happen with character sets in modern computer, not everything is UTF-8 everywhere, and resources are burnt left right and centre converting, checking and reconverting on route. The phrase "don't start from here" springs to mind :(
It's an interesting set of mash-up's. Still - seems to work... Mostly. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq