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Re: sendmail character set question

 
Jay Song
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sendmail character set question

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
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G. Vrijhoeven
Honored Contributor

Re: sendmail character set question

Jeffrey S. Sims
Trusted Contributor

Re: sendmail character set question

Comment out the line

O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1

See if that works for you.
Jeffrey S. Sims
Trusted Contributor

Re: sendmail character set question

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

Re: sendmail character set question

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

set charset=ascii

HTH