[Dovecot] problem with charset and encoding

[Héctor Moreno Blanco]

Hello Steffen,

The mail storage is the same, Maildir.

The messages do not look weird, only the special characters.

When you're saying to remove old cache files, do you mean dovecot index files in the Maildir directory (dovecot* files)?

I haven't done anything but deleting those files, which were re-created when starting new session in dovecot.

I have tried creating a mailbox with that information and the view was correct in TB, OL and Webmail. So the problem might be in that mailbox.

Do I have to do something else to "repair" this mailbox?


Thank you very much,
Kind regards.

Héctor Moreno Blanco





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De: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de]
Enviado el: jueves, 07 de marzo de 2013 10:32
Para: Héctor Moreno Blanco
CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
Asunto: Re: [Dovecot] problem with charset and encoding

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Héctor Moreno Blanco wrote:

> We are having some troubles since we updated dovecot from 2.0.10 to 2.1.6.

Did you upgraded the mail storage, too?

> With 2.0.10 with messages with this headers:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Showed the special characters fine. However, with this new version, there are special characters that are not correctly showed.
>
> For example:
>
> "Su c=F3digo de activaci=F3n "   must be "Su código de activación ", but in all email clients, even in webmail, is showed like the first way without decoding it.

Do the messages look wired in other ways, e.g. do they have header lines at top?

> Maybe some configuration or libraries I missed?

No, I don't think so. The client renders the message, Dovecot should not alter its content.

Do this happen for new accounts, too? If not, maybe you need to remove the old cache files.

What mail storage do you use? With Maildir you could easily create a new mailbox and drop a file with:

==== START
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: Test
Message-ID: <test2344434 at localhost>

Su c=F3digo de activaci=F3n
====END

there then view it with a client.

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Steffen Kaiser
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