[lug] elm chokes on charset X-roman8

[Deva Samartha]

Please ignore me,
I think, I fixed it,  I put

set charset=us-ascii

in /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc

on the HP box and it is happy now.

S.

At 04:28 PM 3/5/01 -0700, you wrote:

>A Linux system is getting email from a HP box and in the headers it has:
>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-roman8
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>and when it is opened in elm, it says:
>
>[Charset X-roman8 unsupported, skipping...]
>[Use 'v' to view or save this part.]
>
>but there is no way to look or safe this email.
>
>if I take the Content-Type header out, it is happy, but....
>
>maybe it's a sendmail issue?
>
>Any suggestions of how to fix this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Samartha
>
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