UTF8 problem with MS Exchange/MM2.1b4

Bug #265796 reported by Pieterb-users
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GNU Mailman
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Bug Description

<pre>
Hi,

I have a problem with UTF8-encoded e-mails from a
Microsoft Exchange
2000 server which are sent to a Mailman 2.1b4
mailinglist server.
Exchange uses "utf8" characterset, so that the users
will get an
extra "attachement" with every mailinglist message
(charset "utf-8"
is used for the body, and charset "us-ascii" is used for
the signature
of the mailinglist).

An example of the headers and body is included, below.

Is there a way to change the filtering in Mailman, so that
these messages
are converted to a more common charset, such as: us-
ascii or iso-8859-1

For more information see:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/tips/Mail_utf
8.asp
(Mailbox Tip: Allow Non-UTF-8 Mail Clients To View
Messages Sent
from Exchange). I tried to get the Exchange server
changed, but
didn't get any response of the local administrator. ;(

Regards,

Pieter

8<--------------------------------------------

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange
V6.0.6249.0
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="----
_=_NextPart_001_01C29496.DF565EF8"
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:25:23 +0100
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
<D5DF62311578B6438DC9703240E4FC6F179F4B@foo.
bar>
Thread-Topic: foo.bar
Thread-Index:
AcKUlojItUqNGxBLS1mNvYY31kEXygAACufy
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1b4
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C29496.DF565EF8
Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

  [base64 attachement removed]

------_=_NextPart_001_01C29496.DF565EF8
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

--
footer of the mailinglist

------_=_NextPart_001_01C29496.DF565EF8--

</pre>

See: <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-
developers/2002-
November/014048.html">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/
mailman-developers/2002-November/014048.html</a>

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=646279&group_id=103&atid=100103]

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