Re: [vps-mail] procmail escaping of non alphanumerics

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:09:45PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:58:20 +0100 scripsit Anon:
> 
> > At some point, those 8-bit umlaut characters turned into question marks,
> > but it made me take another look at the spam I got this morning (one of
> > many of this kind.)
> 
> Scott's mail client did that. From the headers in his mail:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit

Right. How it displayed in your mail client isn't really relevant (it
displayed fine in mutt): procmail needs the actual high-ascii
characters since there isn't any clean way to specify them otherwise
(e.g,. hex, octal, etc.)

Scott
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