Re: Starting Linux BBS
  By: Sam Alexander to Rob Swindell on Sat Oct 23 2004 03:19 am

 >  >  > Yes, this would be unrelated to FidoNet/FTN MSGID's. If
you could forw
 >  >  > e-mail to me (rob {at} synchro.net), I'll take a look and
see what I c
 >  >  > I (and many other Synchronet sysops) send Internet e-mail
to Outlook a
 >  >  > Outlook Express clients from the BBS all the time with no
errors.  
 >  > It appears your Outlook installation doesn't support the IBM437 (IBM
 >  > "extended-ASCII") charset. What version of Outlook is this?
 > 
 > I'm using Outlook 2003 on Windows 2000 Pro.  It has all the latest updates
 > for both windows and Office, and AFAIK it's a default configuration.

I just tested this scenario (from the BBS to Outlook 2003 on Win2Kpro) and it
worked (displayed the e-mail message) fine.

 > Any ides on what might cause this?

Outlook was configured for "Internet only", so maybe it's
Exchange that can't
handle the charset. Or maybe (less likely) it's some setting in Outlook 2003
that I don't know about.

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