On Mon, 27 Jun 1994   18:21 EDT, "John F. Chandler" <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
 
> > > 554 8BIT SMTP extension not supported
>
> Clearly, that is a complaint about unprintable characters.  It comes from
> the gateway in question and is beyond the control of LISTSERV.  Sounds
> like a new "feature" designed to force people to use MIME.
>
> > The last line of the messages contain non printable characters
> > along with the contents of the Subject: line.
>
> Sounds like the trailing subject on a PROFS note.  If so, the problem
> is presumably in the translator that converted the PROFS note into
> RFC822 mail.  It should strip out the trailing subject and leave only
> the one in the mail header.
 
Actually, *EVERY* message has the trailing Subject line "garbage".
It even shows up in the digests on each message!
 
crv