Thank you ALL VERY much for your assistance, I will
try that and let you know how I get on.
--- Paul Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> At 6:24 AM -0700 6/15/00, mwangu wrote:
> >Paul,
> >
> >Thank you for your response.
> >
> >Please do not take offence at my conclusion that
> qmail
> >is partly to blame. While my familiarity with MTAs
> >stops at sendmail, I am only just getting to grips
> >with the workings of qmail (I have been looking at
> >this issue for the last 4 days, and yes, I have
> >trawled through a mass of documentation.
> >
> >I can appreciate what you're saying. Now, is there
> any
> >way for me to get qmail to emulate this particular
> >feature of sendmailfor the next 2 months while I
> work
> >on ripping out this insidioud accounting
> application?
>
> You need to find a filter to change octal 200-377
> into the equivalent
> MIME quoted printable encoding. There's a perl
> module at CPAN,
> MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint, part of the MIME-tools
> package, that
> looks like it will do the job. I think the actual
> conversion,
> though, can be done in a single line of perl, or
> maybe tr(1) is
> enough.
>
> Where to put it is the question only you can decide.
> If it's only a
> single person or a small number of people that need
> to see the mail
> "correctly", then putting the filter in .qmail
> should work. If all
> mail needs to be converted, then you can use the
> default delivery
> instruction to do it, but I've never done anything
> like that myself.
> Look at http://www.qmail.org/ and the list archives
> to get some ideas.
>
> The alternative is to simply install sendmail on the
> new machine. I
> can't believe there's a machine that runs qmail that
> won't run
> sendmail. But using a filter is going to be much
> easier, and much
> safer.
>
> > I realise that what I have just asked borders
> on
> >heresy, but I am desparate to get this resolved as
> I
> >do have more pressing jobs to get on with which
> will
> >allow me to get rid of sendmail completely as it
> has
> >proved to be an insecure MTA time and time again.
> >qmail as I understand it could close this hole, but
> >before I do that I need to implement our new
> >accounting system, and before I do that I have to
> run
> >the old one without the sendmail relay host which
> has
> >now been poached, .... and so on, I'm sure you get
> the
> >picture.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >
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