Re: SMTP and strange characters

[Anthony DeRobertis <asd suespammers org>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:30:50 Pawel Salek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you think that ÿèxÿæ8ÿè8DATA
SMTP code handles properly 8-bit characters?

It doesn't properly handle 7-bit characters. See below.

> I just
> look for explanation fo this strange ÿèxÿæ8ÿè8DATA sequences
> people get in the messages. 

I'd love to have one.

> 
> Anthony, do you use sendmail or smtp mode for sending?

I have it use the mailserver running localy (i.e., tell it the SMTP
server is 'localhost').

> Can you
> reproduce your problem?

Easily. Any significantly long message sent with balsa to anyone (even a
locÿèxÿæ8ÿè8DATA
al user) gets that nonsense inserted; mail send with anything else
does not. Other mailers I've tried -- which work -- include pine, pipe to
sendmail, telnet to SMTP, fetchmail [ok, a MTA not a MUA, but still uses
SMTP], and mail. Probably some others, too.

This message will probably contain some more nonsense. I did not insert
any more.