On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:48:06 +0400 Michael Sobolev mss@transas.com wrote:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r

And, as our users use different MUA, Content-Transfer-Encoding may well be different from 8bit, and it's usually equal to base64 or quoted-printable.

Mailman will nto help you here. You need to use an external archiver that handles character set definitions properly. MHonArc is such an animal:

http://www.mhonarc.org/

The problem is two folded. The mailing list engine just appends footer maillist administrator creates and this usually results in garbage...

This is a known problem as the list signature code is not MIME aware. The only useful solution is to turn off list signatures.

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