StephenWeinstein
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When "plain text" e-mail is sent from many Yahoo! Mail accounts to any @jewishgen.org address, it arrives with various characters added, such as "=A0", which makes it appear to everyone at jewishgen.org that it was not sent as plain text. However, this does not happen when sending to other domains. As a test, I sent one message from one of the Yahoo! mail accounts to the gmail account of a person who also had at @jewishgen.org account (and sent them both the same way), that person said that the one sent from the Yahoo account to the gmail account arrived fine, and only the one sent to @jewishgen.org had a problem. However, that person also said that there was no problem when sending from a gmail account to an @jewishgen.org account. I searched the web for e-mail messages to other domains that had been posted on web pages and seemed to have this problem, found a few that were not to jewishgen.org, and noticed that the one common characteristic seemed to be that they were messages sent to domains that host mailing lists. I know jewishgen.org uses Lyris, which is mostly used by domains that host mailing lists, so maybe the problem is specific to messages going from Yahoo's server to a Lyris server. That is just a guess.
What is causes this problem?
Are these characters being inserted by Yahoo or by the recipient's server?
To fix this, what needs to be done, either with the jewishgen.org Lyris server or when sending the messages from Yahoo?
What is causes this problem?
Are these characters being inserted by Yahoo or by the recipient's server?
To fix this, what needs to be done, either with the jewishgen.org Lyris server or when sending the messages from Yahoo?