Character set problem when sending mail to Exchange

[Laurens Wagemakers]

Hi there,

I've configured our HP-Ux 10.20 system to use our Exchange Server to send mail. When the backup is ready it's mailed to the system administrator account. However when receiving a mail in Outlook the following message is printed and the original message is put in a attachement.

Message in Outlook>>>
This message was sent using a character set not unsupported on the Internet Mail Connector. The message text has been placed into the attachment: ATT00001.txt. To view, double-click on the attachment. If the text isn't displayed correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then use a viewer that can display the original character set.
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Microsoft Technet has an article about this with PSS ID Number: Q157735 which states that charactersets like Roman-8, or starting with "X-..." are not supported.

I've tried to set the LANG variabele in the unix-shell to
other values, but nothing seems to help.

Does anybody know a way to connect HP-Ux to Exchange without the characterset problem ?

[Kofi ARTHIABAH · Accepted solution]

You can fix the problem by editting the file /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc and changing adding the line

set charset=us-ascii

Another way is to invoke mailx with the -m option. do a man mailx for details.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
You can alsoput environnment variables in file .mailrc (in home directory)

export charset=iso8859-1
export encoding=8bits

Regards
Victor