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Anachostic - 24 Nov 2005 03:22 GMT

Is there a known problem posting NNTP to an Exchange Server and encoding an
attachment using YEnc? From the testing I have done, Exchange seems to
convert some of the higher ASCII values into normal characters and seems to
drop some characters in the encoded file also. This renders the message
unusable to anyone reading it from the server.

I searched the usual resources and did not see anything confirming this to
be a problem. I find it hard to believe no one has noticed this.

The server is 2k3 SBS. The client is XNews.

Please, no religious arguments of YEnc vs MIME vs UU.

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Anachostic - 24 Nov 2005 14:11 GMT

Might have found the problem. I changed the default encoding from
Western European to UTF-8. This setting is in System Manager at Global
Settings>Internet Message Format. Since I couldn't make a new policy
just for NNTP, I just changed the default. I don't expect it to have any
side effects with incoming mail.

Posting YEnc encoded attachments go in and come out just fine now.

> Is there a known problem posting NNTP to an Exchange Server and
> encoding an attachment using YEnc? From the testing I have done,
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> Please, no religious arguments of YEnc vs MIME vs UU.

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