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Subject: RE: problem with accent and Bounce
From: Peter Bowyer <pbowyer @ verity . com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:48:17 -0000
To: "'majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com'" <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>

Tha aprove script doesn't do any filtering; probably your mail client
messes up the encoding. Try sending a message with accents in to '|cat >
myfile' and inspecting the file.

Peter

> ----------
> From: 	Le chaud-lapin[SMTP:thierry@enterprise.america.com]
> Sent: 	21 January 1998 06:28
> To: 	majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
> Subject: 	Re: problem with accent and Bounce
> 
> On Jan 15, 1998 at 11:57 PM, Mats Dufberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:03:48 +0100, Cecile Tonnerre wrote:
> > >I maintain a majordomo who works well, except for one thing :
> > >when a message is bounced, the accents do not pass, like that :
> > >but, when the message goes directly to the list, there is no
> problem
> > >with the accents.
> > That no a problem. If you approve it correctly, the mail be as 
> > it was when it left the sender. Majordomo will restore the
> > original message.
> > Mats Dufberg                       mats.dufberg@abc.se
> 
> And Thierry responds:
> Well, Mats, I am having the exact same problem as Cecile.  I presume I
> am
> approving correctly, since I am using a UNIX account and simply pipe
> the
> message to the approve script included with majordomo.  One of the
> lists I
> run is primarily in French, and when messages bounce for whatever
> reason and
> I must approve them, I simply hit "|approve" inside my mailer (Mutt)
> and it
> approves the message, but the accents do not pass through intact.  I
> am
> presuming that this is due to the fact that the accents are, in fact,
> MIME
> codes, and for some reason the approve script strips these out...  But
> I've
> looked through the approve script and while I admit I am a novice at
> Perl
> programming, I see nothing which would cause this.  All other times,
> the
> messages pass through just fine.  So I am at a complete loss.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers!
> Shane
> -- 
> Shane Ludwig 		thierry@america.com
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