[Dovecot] Strange behaivour with extended characters
Hi there.
I am using dovecot in almost all the mail servers I configure, but I have not noticed some problems till now, when I configured a server for a japanese language based customer. Now I know, the problem is not about this customer, but it seems to be a constant in all my servers (for some reason we did not noticed that before).
The situation is like this.
When receving mail with extended (not only japanese) characters in the subject, Outlook Express does not recognize them. Most of our users do not use OE, but most of the japanese do. This is not all. When extended chars are also in the body, they look well when the maqil still arrives, but if forwarded to another account, or when mail is an answer to another, extended characters are not well displayed. In some tests we have done, I found more or less the same is happening when using squirrelmail. The funny thing is that the problem dos not appear when using Evolution or Outlook (the MS Office component). I move some pamrs in dovecot.conf and get some results (before moving them, the problem extended to attachements), but still remains as described.
Somebody has seen such a behaivour and solved it? I was thinking to change dovecot for another agent, but will be happier using dovecot. Any suggestion?
Thanks in advice.
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:20 -0500, Armando Soto Baeza wrote:
When receving mail with extended (not only japanese) characters in the subject, Outlook Express does not recognize them. Most of our users do not use OE, but most of the japanese do. This is not all. When extended chars are also in the body, they look well when the maqil still arrives, but if forwarded to another account, or when mail is an answer to another, extended characters are not well displayed.
None of these really sound like a Dovecot problem. Dovecot doesn't do any kind of character set decoding/translation/anything really when sending messages to clients. That's only done in the SEARCH command (which OE never uses anyway).
If this is somehow related to Dovecot, it's because of ENVELOPE and/or BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE replies. I don't know if OE uses these. It might be helpful to look at the IMAP traffic using e.g. rawlog http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog.
Somebody has seen such a behaivour and solved it? I was thinking to change dovecot for another agent, but will be happier using dovecot. Any suggestion?
You also didn't mention what Dovecot version you're using.
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Armando Soto Baeza
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Timo Sirainen