In mail, "Kari E. Hurtta" <Kari.Hurtta@fmi.fi> wrote:
lassehp@imv.aau.dk (Lasse Hillerøe Petersen) writes in
comp.mail.{mime.sendmail}:

[ Hmm. Why kermit refuses to show 'ø' -- instead it shows 'o' :-) ]

Oh! (or Øh!) :-)

Are you sure that problem _isn't_ local -mailer (ie.
the mailer that is called in sendmail.cf's Mlocal -line -- It is usually
/bin/mail) ?

No. I wasn't even aware that sendmail did not take care of the actual delivery!

I am no Unix wizard, and just took over the responsibility for this system
from a guy who wasn't exactly a wizard either. Apparently I have been
completely off track; however it is amazing that you are the first to
point that out. Others have lead me into the wilderness, saying for
example that it is a problem with my SMTP client.

When I asked about this in comp.unix.aux last year (we were using 5.65
back then), Jim Jagielski told me:
Well, it's not "well known" but it _is_ a bug in sendmail 5.64 and 5.65...

smail and sendmail 8.?.? don't suffer from this..

We have been running A/UX sendmail almost straight out of the box here. So
when Apple released 8.6.9, we thought everything would be fine. Apparently
Apple delivers something that is not exactly in a working condition, now
why didn't we expect that?

Please check it first.

It is probable that usage of /bin/mail don't match mailer flags what is
tell to sendmail in Mlocal -line.

That will be it!

I cannot thank you enough for being so crystal clear about this!

This followup is cross-posted to comp.unix.aux, as there are probably more
A/UX systems running straight out of the box with this problem waiting to
strike without warning.

--
Lasse Hillerøe Petersen ! "If others had not been foolish,
Systems Administrator ! we would be so!"
Information & Media Science ! -William Blake
Aarhus University, DENMARK !