Brad Knowles wrote: >On 4/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have installed the latest version of mailman in a mail server running >> postfix. The problem is with emails that contain greek characters. If the >> encoding is iso-8859-7 or windows-1253, all the body text is encoded as >> base64. The result of it is that the recipients cannot read the received >> emails. > >This is not a Mailman problem. This is caused by either your mail >client generating base64, or the message being converted when it hits >the MTA.
Actually, it is Mailman (or Python if you prefer). When various processes (scrubbing attachments and/or adding msg_header and/or msg_footer) set the message payload with character set iso-8859-7, the Python email library encodes the payload as base64. >Get the client or the MTA fixed, and Mailman should handle the result >just fine. Yes! base64 is a standard MIME encoding which the recipient's MUAs should recognize. Why do the recipients have difficulty reading a base64 encoded message? >> In case a user sends an email with multipart/mixed encoding everything is >> ok. I notice your list post was sent with Content-Type: text/plain;charset=multipart/mixed This is completely bogus. There is no such character set as multipart/mixed. I don't know if your SquirrelMail MUA did this on its own or you somehow told it to, but it's wrong. The reason this may work to avoid base64 is that Mailman/Python doesn't recognize this charset and treats it as unknown resulting in the messages Content-Transfer-Encoding: being 8bit instead of base64. <snipped good advice from Brad> >> I've added a new line in Defauls.py containing the iso-8859-7 but it does >> not work. > >Don't edit Defaults.py. That file will get overwritten in an >upgrade. Edit mm_cfg.py instead. Absolutely. But, what exactly did you add? Adding arbitrary things that aren't already defined won't do anything because Mailman won't reference them. Adding a new language to the LC_DESCRIPTIONS list via an add_language line without adding all the translated messages and templates for that language will just create a mess. Changing the characterset associated with a language won't affect this issue, because the character set in this case is the character set of the message body, not the character set of the list language. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
