MS encoding email bodies?

Lee Stone lee at STONE-INITIATIVES.COM
Thu Feb 24 12:12:15 GMT 2005


Sure. Thanks for responding.

Uncorrupted email body begins:-----------------

"Welcome to At the Kerbside Forums

Please keep this email for your records. Your account information is as
follows:

----------------------------
Username: test8
Password: test8
----------------------------

Your account is currently inactive. You cannot use it until you visit the
following link:

http://www.gospeloak.com/profile.php?mode=activate&u=5&act_key=bef8e62330fbe
ea354

Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database
and we cannot retrieve it for you. However, should you forget your password
you can request a new one which will be activated in the same way as this
account.

Thank you for registering.

--
Thanks, Parking-Petition.org admins"

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Hope this helps? I am very much a novice at all this.

Regards

Lee Stone
---------
Stone Initiatives

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 24 February 2005 12:07
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MS encoding email bodies?
>
> Can you post an uncorrupted mail and a corrupted one please?
>
> Lee Stone wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I hope someone can help me here - I upgraded at the weekend to MS
> v4.38.10-1
> >from v4.32.5 or thereabouts. I also upgraded ClamAV and SA.
> >
> >I host a phpBB forum which sends out user confirmation emails to newly
> >registered members. The body of these emails used to say something along
> the
> >lines of "welcome to the forum - click here to activate your
> membership...."
> >with a link comprising URL+7-bit_code. These are now coming through with
> the
> >whole body [mime?-]encoded and illegible.
> >
> >Now, I cannot for the life of me work out where in MailScanner.conf I
> turn
> >off this encoding - if indeed this is where I do it.
> >
> >I know it is not the forum doing it, I can temporarily route outgoing
> emails
> >through another mail server [still running MS 4.32.5] and they come
> through
> >intact.
> >
> >Your advice would be welcome.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Lee Stone
> >
> >MS 4.38.10
> >SuSE linux 9.0
> >SA 2.64-4
> >Perl 5.8.1 [was updated but hit memory-race issue so downgraded again]
> >Mail::SpamAssassin 3.000002
> >Mail::ClamAV 0.13
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