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Subject: Re: =20
From: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah @ cloud . ccsf . cc . ca . us>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 20:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
To: Mike Oliver <Mike . Oliver @ Sun . COM>
Cc: chocobofrank @ hotmail . com, Majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <0HKB00KAB3SLBA@bos-mail1.sfbay.sun.com>

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Mike Oliver wrote:

> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mike Oliver <Mike.Oliver@Sun.COM>
> To: chocobofrank@hotmail.com
> Cc: Majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
> Subject: Re: =20
> 
> cheong frank <chocobofrank@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Finally I have setup the Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > and everything seems working fine.
> > 
> > While after days of testing with our production mail list I found
> > that there are still bounces while the email address on the email
> > content does not have the =20 while the email actually sending to
> > user@theirdomain.com=20 
> 
> This means that the actual subscriber list was populated by addresses
> that were delivered in a quoted-printable format message.  Edit the
> subscriber list file (the file in the 'lists' directory under
> Majordomo's home directory whose name is the same as your listname) and
> remove those trailing =20 sequences.  Majordomo only understands plain
> text, anything it receives in quoted-printable format will confuse it.
> 
> To prevent more corrupted addresses from being added to the list turn
> on subscription confirmation (so that subscribers who send
> quoted-printable subscription requests aren't able to complete the
> subscription cycle) and make sure that the list maintainer does not
> send subscription approval messages in quoted-printable format.
> 
> If your subscribers and list maintainer are unable to refrain from
> sending quoted-printable messages then you'll have to find some way to
> convert the messages to plain text before Majordomo sees them.  Demime
> might be able to convert q-p to plain text, I don't know.  The
> conversion doesn't have to be complete, it just needs to get rid of
> accidental junk like the =20 that is causing this trouble.  Majordomo
> itself could be hacked to do this, maybe someone on the list will
> volunteer to teach it how.

Try stripmime, http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html:

 majordomo: "|/usr/local/majordomo/stripmime.pl|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"

Regards,

Joe
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