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- From: ned@innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Erroneous output from CONFIGURE.COM
- Message-ID: <01GOD2DV8C029FM7LA@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 14:37:48 GMT
- Organization: The Internet
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- Resent-Date: 03 Sep 1992 21:37:48 -0700 (PDT)
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- X-Vms-To: IN%"JEREMY@vsm.com.au"
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- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
-
- > That makes sense, I told it the official local host name was r.s.g.a, not
- > SERF.r.s.g.a which was the default response. Although this does mean I
- > have mis-understodd how the rewrite rules and the channel blocks interact.
-
- I have changed CONFIGURE.COM so that in the future it will insure that the
- official local host name gets its own rewrite rules.
-
- > Actually, no. I just did this:
- > $ MAIL
- > MAIL> send
- > To: in%"sysprgg@paper"
- > Subj: Test mail to paper
- > Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete, or CTRL/C to quit:
- > This is a short test message to paper.
- > ^Z
- > MAIL>
-
- > Didn't work. I removed the "charset7 us-ascii" without success, and then
- > also the "charset8 iso-8859-1" and that didn't help either.
-
- Did you remove them from both the D AND the L channels? You have to get rid of
- it in both places. charset8 has nothing to do with it unless you use 8-bit
- characters. You can also solve the problem by getting rid of the linelength
- limits. The proper solution, of course, is to get a newer version of PMDF that
- handles this interaction correctly. Please contact your distributor if you want
- a updated version; all distributors have had updated versions in hand for quite
- a while.
-
- Dan was incorrect on one point -- the problem has nothing to do with actually
- having long lines. The problem is rather due to the fact that a line length
- limit was given AND a character set was given WITHOUT providing an incentive
- for an actual detailed length check of the message. The result is that the
- general MIME converter in PMDF doesn't know the lengths but knows there's a
- limit; it then assumes the worst and encodes "just to be on the safe side".
- This is also the reason base64 is used -- there is no frequency information
- available to indicate that quoted-printable would be a better choice.
-
- This problem was corrected by making a bunch of different and interrelated
- changes. In some cases more analysis is now done and in others the converter is
- no longer quite so strict.
-
- All this is an unfortunate consequence of the interaction of linelengths and
- character sets. I have described the problem and the ways to solve it in
- previous info-pmdf postings. I am fairly sure this is the problem you're
- seeing; the symptoms are absolutely identical to previous problem reports.
-
- If you cannot get things to work even after you have removed all linelength and
- charset7 specifications and recompiled and reinstalled (if you use a compiled
- configuration) please send me your configuration and I'll look into it further.
-
- Ned
-