Encodings with Thunderbird/SWA

[georg]

Hi,

A mail with umlauts in subject is sent to 2 mailsystems.
in a mbox file it will be displayed as

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Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WG:_=D6sterreich?=

and the same mail in scalix accessed via imap has

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Subject: =?x-scalix-?Q?WG:_=D6sterreich?=

and thunderbird cannot recognize that charset and display only one '?' in subject.

even worse, in SWA the mail will be rendered with the Subject

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=?x-scalix-?Q?WG:_=D6sterreich?=

(composed in SWA, OL or Thunderbird)


further, if a mail composed in thunderbird and sent to scalix with charset ISO-8859-15 instead of ISO-8859-1 all umlauts will be replaced with '*'

the body of all theses mails will be displayed correctly.
concerns old Scalix 9.2.0 - is this fixed on 10.0 ?

[jch]

I'm slightly surprised that it didn't work in 9.2, but only slightly :-)

There's good news and bad news in Scalix 10. I've just tried these two

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Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WG:_=D6sterreich?=
Subject: =?iso-8859-15?Q?WG:_=D6sterreich?=

on my slightly-post Scalix 10 server and the subjects appear as

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Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?WG:_=D6sterreich?=
Subject: WG: *sterreich

respectively once they've made their way through to the IMAP server. Without going into detail as to why that basically means that ISO-8859-1 works and ISO-8859-15 doesn't :-(

There is good news on the horizon though. One of the projects the server team are working on at the moment will fix this particular problem and a whole host of related ones.

jch

[ivo_toshev]

Just to mention that the same is true for any other non ISO-8859-1 encoding.
In my situation these are Windows-1251, ISO-8859-5, KOI-8R ...

[georg]

regarding the "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?" to "=?x-scalix-?Q?" convertion:
this only happens with mails, sent to scalix adresses which deliver to public folders.
to "normal" accounts 8859-1 stays ok.
(and 8859-15 makes "*")

[rudi]

Yes, I have the same proble too. But only in public folders, that receiving emails.