Re: Starting Linux BBS
  By: Rob Swindell to Sam Alexander on Thu Oct 21 2004 12:40 pm

 >  > One thing I will note, and this might be totally unrelated to the Message
 >  > thing.  When I sent myself an Internet email from X-Bit, the message
 >  > arrived in Outlook (we use Exchange 5.5 here if that matters) as an
 >  > attachment with a note saying it didn't understand the layout of the mess
 >  >  This might be a quark on my end, but not sure.  I do plan on using my BB
 >  > most of my Internet mail (once it's up), so instances like this I want to
 >  > avoid.
 > 
 > Yes, this would be unrelated to FidoNet/FTN MSGID's. If you could forward th
 > e-mail to me (rob {at} synchro.net), I'll take a look and see what I can see
 > I (and many other Synchronet sysops) send Internet e-mail to Outlook and
 > 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?

                                                  digital man

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