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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!tezcat.com!netaxs.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail CANNOT transfer 8-bits characters Date: 14 Aug 1996 19:57:02 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4utb2e$5bs@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <32110837.E28@vitek.com.tw> <4ut1ho$mc6@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de's message of 14 Aug 1996 19:14:32 +0200 [Felix Schroeter] | Sendmail *can* transfer 8bit characters in the body, but not in the | header. See also the documentation on O EightBitMode (assuming, it's | sendmail 8.7.*)... Sure it can transfer 8 bit characters in the headers. I just sent myself a message with the ISO 8859-1 characters æøåÆØÅ (for the curious: three vowels that Norwegian has and English lacks) in the Subject: header, and in the comment () part of the To: header. It arrived on the sendmail system intact, and was forwarded back to my normal mail system with the letters intact. Note that I had Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 in the headers. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no