Hi everybody !
Not so long ago, I came up with the following problem:
I had to re-configure sendmail, because the mail system on one server did
not forward any mails with special signs, such as German a-, o-, and
u-umlauts and French accented vowels.
Since nobody seems to have found a solution for my problem, I have been
asking around my office and loo and behold: Somebody only a few offices from
my own could help me! So, here are the two lines to change in sendmail.cf
and/or maybe in <HOSTNAME>.cf - I changed both, just in case):
Extracts from /var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf_at_HOSTNAME.WHAT.admin.ch and
/var/adm/sendmail/HOSTNAME.cf_at_HOSTNAME.WHAT.admin.ch
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(The first column is the line-number in vi)
(...)
130 # 8-bit data handling
131 # O EightBitMode=pass8
132 # Changed by Urs Gasser July 2000 based on info by J-C Latron BIT,
VAN's data base: next line:
133 O EightBitMode=mime
134 # O8p # blocked by Urs Gasser
135
(...)
365 # default character set
366 #O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1
367 # Changed by Urs Gasser July 2000 based on info by J-C Latron BIT,
cf. VAN's dat a base: next line:
368 O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1
(...)
N.B. These settings cannot be changed via the "mailsetup" tool.
I hope it will be useful to the rest of the world ... (well, Europe, I mean
...)
Yours
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Urs Gasser
Systemtechnik UNIX
Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation BIT
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Post Monbijoustrasse 74, CH-3003 Bern
Telefon +41-31-322 26 39
Telefax +41-31-325 90 30
Internet urs.gasser_at_bit.admin.ch
X.400 G=urs; S=gasser; O=bit; A=admin; C=ch
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Received on Wed Jul 05 2000 - 14:45:52 NZST