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    From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Sun Jan 8 03:49:11 2023
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/483

    I received an smtp email from one of my users and rather than new lines, I get " "

    Couldn't even begin to say what the problem is. I'm using SyncTerm.

    Let's see if we can figure this out as to what's causing it and how I fix it.

    Thanks.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Sun Jan 8 20:50:26 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/483#note_3013

    I'd use smbutil to try reading the message and then maybe get a hex dump of the body text to do see what's what.

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jan 9 18:08:41 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/483#note_3016

    If I use smbutil and pipe the output to hexdump it tells me the odd characters are 0xc2 0xa0.

    c2a0 is UTF-8 for a non-breaking space.


    There's some other oddities in there. Maybe when I figure this one out the rest will work themselves out.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jan 16 18:05:04 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/483#note_3056

    Can you provide the header details of this message ("using smbutil v")?

    If it's appropriate flagged as UTF-8 content, then it should have been converted to CP437 or ASCII (as appropriate) automatically when viewed in the terminal server.

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Apr 3 11:43:06 2023
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/483

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Apr 3 13:46:49 2023
    reopen https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/483

    I received an smtp email from one of my users and rather than new lines, I get " "

    Couldn't even begin to say what the problem is. I'm using SyncTerm.

    Let's see if we can figure this out as to what's causing it and how I fix it.

    Thanks.

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