topic Re: sendmail character set question in Operating System - Linux

sendmail character set question

Jay Song — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:49:14 GMT

Sendmail is configured on HP-UX 10.20 server, and it send mail out just fine. However, when my outlook receives the email, I have the following message:
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This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
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As the result, my message is actually in a text file attachment. I can open the attachment with notepad and read it.

I checked my sendmail.cf file. There is an option about character set configured as following:

# default character set
O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1

Am I using the wrong character set? Are there any other character sets I can select from? What I need to do to deliver my text message in message body instead of attachment.

TIA.

Jay Song

Re: sendmail character set question

G. Vrijhoeven — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:11:00 GMT

Hi,

this looks like an HP-UX question.

check out:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x1938cbaac6dcd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Gideon

Re: sendmail character set question

Jeffrey S. Sims — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:44:36 GMT

Comment out the line

O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1

See if that works for you.

Re: sendmail character set question

Jeffrey S. Sims — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:45:31 GMT

P.S. Then stop and start sendmail after you change the sendmail.cf file. Sorry I forgot that earlier.

Re: sendmail character set question

Tom Dawson — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:12:30 GMT

In the home directory of the user sending the mail, create the file ".mailrc". Add the single line:

set charset=ascii

HTH