Andrew Miller wrote: >We run Mailman 2.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Server. Postfix 2.1.5 is the >SMTP server. A number of our subscribers who are sent digests are not >able to receive them. The digest messages are bouncing with the error >message: > >Action: failed >Status: 5.6.1 >Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.6.1 Body type not supported by Remote Host > >Many of these digests are sent with the header Content-Transfer- >Encoding: 8bit, and I am wondering if this is what is causing some of >our subscribers to not receive these messages.
It could be, but as far as I know, if the remote MTA doesn't indicate an ability to accept 8bit, Postfix should convert the body to quoted-printable. >Has anyone else here experienced this problem, and is there a way to >force Mailman to generate digests using the quoted-printable encoding >instead? Or possibly, is there a way to get Postfix to translate to >quoted-printable? We have recently migrated to Mailman from a >different list serve program, and never had this problem with digests >with the older list serve. If in fact it is the Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit that is the problem, it seems strange that only digests are affected. The Content-Transfer-Encoding: is determined by by the Python email library based on the character set and content of the message. For a normal, English language digest, the character set is us-ascii in which case the Content-Transfer-Encoding: will be 8bit or 7bit depending on whether or not the message actually contains 8bit codes. You can force QP encoding by forcing the message to be iso-8859-1 rather than us-ascii. You can do this by putting add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'iso-8859-1') in mm_cfg.py. -- 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