[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I sent an email to "mylist" containing greek characters. >Then, i opened mailman's web interface as the list's moderator to decide >about the fate of the incoming email. >In the email's body there were unreadable characters such as =E1=E2=E3.
These are quoted-printable encoded characters (each non-us-ascii-printable 8-bit byte is encoded as an '=' followed by two hex digits). In the iso-8859-7 character set they correspond to the upper case greek letters alpha, beta and gamma. >Then, i chose "Additionally, forward this message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and then "Approve". > >The members of the list received unreadable base64 encoded characters >while the [EMAIL PROTECTED] received proper greek characters. > >Is this not strange? No, it is not strange at all. The forwarded message was sent as is to the address you forwarded it to. That address received the quoted-printable encoded message and the MUA used to view it understood and properly decoded the quoted-printable encoding. The list message probably had a msg_header or msg_footer added or some other Mailman manipulation done to it that caused Mailman to reset the contents of the message body which in turn cause the Python email library to encode the body with its encoding for iso-8859-7 (or windows-1253) which is base64. I doubt very much that Mailman's encoding or not encoding the message body as base64 is really caused by the presence/absence of the mailscanner headers. I think you probably also changed some list configuration (such as removing msg_footer) at the same time and this is what changed Mailman's behavior. -- 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
