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We have a problem that may be familiar to other Euroepan users of
QuickMail.  The problem is not in QuickMail itself, but rather in the
SMTP connection to the outside world of Internet email.

A number of characters that are used frequently in Swedish (wovels
overscored with various dots and rings), have dedicated codes in the
range 128-255 on the Macintosh. When encoding Swedish text on 7-bit
media, these particular characters are usually encoded as 91, 92, 93,
123, 124, and 125.

Consequently, the software that forwards QuickMail messages to the
Internet email side should convert these codes. However, our current
version of "GatorMail" (it doesn't really present itself anywhere, I
think) just translates characters in the 128-255 range to 7-bit
sequences on the form '#234#'. This preserves the information content
fairy well, but is awkward to read.

QUESTION: Is there any way to make the sendmail on the Unix side
handle this automatically, by applying some kind of filter to letters
that arrive from the QuickMail side?

For letters going in the other direction there is a corresponding need
for conversion. Here "GatorMail" does no conversion at all. This
should also be handled centrally by sendmail, ideally.

Our sendmail is 5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4.

Any suggestions welcomed!

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Rabbe Fogelholm, Infologics AB     rabbe@infolog.se    fax: +46 8 960846