sendmail problem: email text coming as attachments

[Stuart Abramson_2]

I recently updated sendmail.cf to add "site hiding". Now, almost all (could be all) emails are coming to Windows as attachments. I get the following message in my email text area:

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.

How can I fix this? Is there some parameter in sendmail.cf that affects character set?

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

Hi,

Do you follow some encoding while the mails get forwarded to the windows machine. uuencoded mails i believe get forwarded as attachments.

i don't know if the change you made to sendmail.cf is causing this... i don't see a relation between the anyhow...

- ramd.

[Steven E. Protter]

back out the change.

as root
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

send some mail. We need to eliminate the sendmail change as a cause.

It may be something else.

SEP

[Stuart Abramson_2]

Problem is fixed by

o For all users:

vi /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc

o For individual users:

vi $HOME/.mailrc

add last line below:

set append
set asksub
set dot
set crt=21
set PAGER=/usr/bin/more
set save
set encoding=8bit
==> set charset=us-ascii <==

[Gary Yu]

Don't know which mail client you are using, but if you use mailx, "mailx -m" can eliminate such attachment.

thanks,
Gary