On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:16:56PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > 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
I don't see the colon after "Content-type" but I'm assuming that's a typo. If it's not a typo, put it in :) > 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. Are you putting in a Mime-Version header field, or is that getting stripped too? (I don't see it in the example you appended) mm
