are y
sendmail is only part of getting an email from point 'a' to 'b'.

are you confident that <whatever> is originating the email is inserting the right characters?

in the same regard, you need to make sure that <whatever> is receiving the email has the capability to properly interpret special characters.

my research on the internet (google is our friend) showed that a lot of people couple sendmail with (perl) scripts to ensure that emails using special character sets get handle properly.  (i found a reference on the itrc about this...you might want to try to find it....search for 'sendmail character sets')

finally, grep /etc/mail/sendmail.cf for 'bit'.  there are setting for 7- and 8- bit.  in my .cf file, these are uncommented.  if yours are commented out, you'll need to follow the procedure i outlined earlier...adapting it to make that correction.        - d

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dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631 Longs Drug Stores
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Brent Moore <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:20:18 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] sendmail


Thanks Donna I made the change, checked the cf file and it did remove 
the '#'. I ran another test to my home account and it still converted the 
characters an alt 103 'é' on the 3000 to another character in this case a 
capital a with small circle over it.  

I just don't know if this can be fixed unless there is a way of having the 
receiving end open the email in a specific character set. The other way may 
be to send the French email in HTML format using the HTML form &#xxx for the 
special characters but I would have to figure out how to tell the recipient’s 
email how the document should be opened.

I will keep plugging away thanks for your help

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