On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:26 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > 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.
However, it does not by default advertise itself as 8 bit clean (because it does not have the facilities to convert a message to 7 bit if the next hop is unable to cope with 8 bit mail). This can cause the injecting system to do a 7 bit conversion if mail is being injected by SMTP. See the accept_8bitmime option for a discussion of this. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_14.html#IX1046 Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
