Hello,

I know, this a bit off-topic, but maybe someone of the mail Gurus has an
idea where to look...

We are producing mails with UTF-8 encoded text body and a header line
telling

        Content-type text/plain; charset=UTF-8
        
The mail is prepared including To/From/Subject header as a file and gets
sent with

        sendmail -t < file

This is working fine, but there are cases where some of the involved MTA
is removing the Content-type line from the mail and of course the UTF-8
encoded chars are looking like garbage in the MUA.

Such a result looks like the attached header.

Any idea why this happens or where to look for the reasons.

Thanks

        matthias

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        by mb8-4 (Cyrus v2.1.18-IPv6-Debian-2.1.18-1+sarge2) with LMTP; Tue, 24 
Jul 2012
        09:53:32 +0200
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Received: from [213.252.153.145] (helo=mailout.xxx.de)
        by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
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thread-index: Ac1pcWPeYGANiQMOTDuIpxpSX5FPaQ==
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Received: by xxx.xxx.xxx.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92F725ADA5; Tue,
        24 Jul 2012 09:53:15 +0200 (CEST)
To: g...@unixarea.de
Subject: Test 
Message-ID: <20120724075315.92f725a...@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.de>
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4913
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:53:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: xxxx <x...@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.de>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jul 2012 07:53:15.0153 (UTC) 
FILETIME=[617EC010:01CD6971]
X-Envelope-To: g...@unixarea.de

(UTF-8 text)
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