Re: FN-FORUM: site test

date posted 1st March 2006 09:04

> I checked my google settings and they recommend "if problems" choose
> UTF-8, which I had selected. Right now I have reverted to google's
> default, which is where it was when I started using google mail.
>
> I use plain text,ie have rich formatting switched off. Again when i
> first joined this list I had the google default of rich-formatting
> switched on. But this discussion group rejected all messages
> automatically.
>
> I strongly suspect that the bottleneck is in the management software
> that looks after this discussion group. Anyone else any ideas?

You now have:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ns0.fonant.com id
k1SNDwM5003602

So now you're using quoted-printable instead of base64, which more mail
handlers seem to be able to handle.

The garbage at the bottom is probably that Prosperity4 stuff added to the
base64-encoded message, without being base64 encoded itself, by the
mailing list software. So my guess is that the FN-FORUM mailing list
software is at fault, it should decode the message from base64 before
adding the footer, and then re-encode as base64, quoted-printable, or 8bit
to keep the UTF-8 characters. It seems to handle quoted-printable and
8bit OK, just messes up base64.

Some UTF-8 characters: “UTF-8� is nice – you can use extra characters like
¶ and ©™!

Anthony
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