[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman can't handle MIME: Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable?

[Alan L. Waller]

That sounds very much like a problem I just corrected. The receiving end 
was behind a Cisco PIX firewall and a bug in the PIX causes this.   Search 
Google groups for     sendmail + multiple +pix     for the complete story.

Al

At 04:40 PM 3/13/2002 -0500, James Madill wrote:

>Users of one of my mailing lists got a nasty surprise when a posted 
>message was repeatedly sent to them.
>
>I traced the problem down to an instance of the standard End-Of-Message 
>marker (a lone period on a line) in the middle of the posted message.
>
>The posted message contained extended ASCII characters encoded using the 
>MIME Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable format.  There was what 
>appeared to be soft returns at column 72.  This message happened to have a 
>paragraph that ended on column 73, so the "soft return" resulted in the 
>period alone on the next line.
>
>Sendmail accepted the encoded document for Mailman, but on sending out, 
>Mailman encountered what it thought was an EOM marker and stopped the 
>processing of the message at that point.  Unfortunately, there was still 
>plenty of message left to send, so it was not removed from the queue, and 
>Mailman kept on sending the first portion.
>
>The smtp daemon is sendmail 8.12.1.  Mailman is version 2.0.8 with 
>DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' in Defaults.py.
>
>Am I missing some Mailman switch to tell it to recognize messages with the 
>Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable tag?
>
>-- James
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