Conference vmszoo::vmsmail

1940.0. "7 bits - problem with accented characters" by VAXRIO::VALERIA () Mon May 19 1997 14:14

	Hi

	my customer has a problem receiving messages from UCX SMTP
and reading them by VMS Mail. All accented letters are changed with strange
characters when the message is sent by Netscape mail (for example) using 7 bits,
quoted-printable. In fact, my customer wants to read his internet mails using 
TeamLinks, but it cannot shows the correct accented characters when the message 
is 7 bits, because all messages are forwarded from VMS Mail.  Is there anyway 
to read this message correctly on VMS Mail ??

Thanks in advance for any help,
Valeria.

A message sent using 8 bits :
----------------------------------------------
From:   SMTP%"[email protected]"
To:     [email protected]
CC:
Subj:   test - 8 bits

Return-Path: [email protected]
Received: by localhost.digital.com.br (UCX V4.1-12A, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX);
        Fri, 16 May 1997 16:04:45 +0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:03:47 -0300
From: Valeria Gabriel <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [email protected]
Subject: test - 8 bits
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

�
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The same message sent using quoted-printable :
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From:   SMTP%"[email protected]"
To:     [email protected]
CC:
Subj:   test - 7 bits

Return-Path: [email protected]
Received: by localhost.digital.com.br (UCX V4.1-12A, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX);
        Fri, 16 May 1997 16:05:35 +0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:04:38 -0300
From: Valeria Gabriel <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [email protected]
Subject: test - 7 bits
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

=E1
=E3
=E7

   That conversion appears to be creeping in somewhere upstream -- OpenVMS
   MAIL is not germaine to this particular text-format conversion.  (Put
   another way, OpenVMS MAIL is too stupid to be involved in this.  :-)

   I'd suggest you ask for assistance on SMTP and MIME over in LASSIE::UCX,
   as this conversion -- if added -- would most likely be implemented in
   the UCX SMTP software.

Am I going crazy, or was the base note posted three times in the last 
couple of days?

[That was ONE question, not two, wise guys.  8^)]