From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57178 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Andree Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mx.gnus.org being very strick Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:36:44 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083440229 3033 80.91.224.253 (1 May 2004 19:37:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 19:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5718=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 01 21:37:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BK0II-0008Qy-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 21:37:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BK0IH-0000om-05 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BK0I8-0000oc-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:36:52 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BK0I7-0002jQ-1v for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 01 May 2004 14:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD163A003B for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 14:36:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DA42A777 for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 21:36:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD04B9347 for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 21:36:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from merlin.emma.line.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m2a2.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12146-03-2 for ; Sat, 1 May 2004 21:36:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 346FDB6925; Sat, 1 May 2004 21:36:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 01 May 2004 12:37:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at m2a2.dyndns.org Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57178 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The recent release patch was rejected by Gnus' MX with the following > message: > > ding-patches@gnus.org > SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: > host a.mx.gnus.org [66.139.78.221]: 550 Error: > improper use of 8-bit data in message body > > Isn't that kinda too strict? Nope. Your mailer is broken and Justine (the canonical name of that server) decided she didn't want malformatted mail. You MUST use proper MIME encoding. You can also assume that the operator of that machine set the corresponding option it on purpose, because the Postfix default is to accept such garbage as non-MIME mail with ISO national characters or UTF 8. -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95