on 9-18-2008 9:29 AM Sean Carolan spake the following: > I have never encountered anything like this before, so thought I'd post > here and see if anyone can help. > > We have a java application that sends out notification emails to > end-users. The body of the email is some boilerplate text and HTML that > is pulled from a database. When the emails are received there are > random instances of " !" (that's a space and a bang symbol) inserted > into the email in various locations. For example a sentence that is > supposed to read like this: > > The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. > > ends up looking like this: > > The quick b !rown fox jumped over the laz !y dog. > > We combed through the source text and didn't find any unusual characters > in the body of the text. Somehow these bang symbols are being inserted > after the mail is handed off to sendmail. Does anyone have an idea how > I can troubleshoot this further? Or maybe you've seen something similar > in your environment? > > thanks > > Sean Is it text based mail, or HTML? I have seen things like this during base64 or quoted printable encoding on some HTML mails from Outlook. If it is encoding, the bangs should repeat in a fairly repeatable pattern. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080918/4dc4f9af/attachment-0005.sig>