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Comment on [#14456] Certain emails gets encoded wrong and cannot be replied to
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> I communicate extesively with people in the Nordic countries, and > they have some funny characters [ÅØÖÆåøæö], and Horde seem to get > these wrong in some circumstances, and making email replies that are > not valid. > > My setup is I have postfix/dovecot on a server, and two iPhones. One > iPhone accesses the mail as IMAP (via dovecot) and one as ActiveSync > (using Horde on same server). > > I have one particular user that seems to be more prone to a problem > that makes horde submit replies with an attempt to encode the > recipient as QP: > > Sep 4 02:39:25 popper postfix/smtpd[11134]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT > from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 550 5.1.1 <=?utf-8?Q?"Hylen>: Recipient > address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; > from=<alexh@acme.com> to=<=?utf-8?Q?"Hylen> proto=ESMTP > helo=<mail.foo.com> > > The person's email is "Håvar Hyle <Havar.Hyle@acme.no>", and the > iPhone using IMAP/MSA has no prolbem reading, displaying and replying > to this person's messages, the phone using Horde usually displays the > email subjects wrongly coded (it should be e.g. displayed as "Våken?" > but gets displayed as "VÃ¥ken?", which makes it look like the "å" > encoded in some multibyte format somewhere got misrepresented as two > single byte chars. > > Viewing the email raw, the subject looks like this: > Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?RE:_v=E5ken_=3F?= > > Which looks like there is latin1 in there also. > > All of this runs alone on a CentOS 7 machine with all default > installation with English language support, and nothing especially > done to pick at PHP or other components for character set changes. > > Anyone have any clue what goes wrong? > >
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