from field encoding

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Tue Jun 23 11:43:51 EEST 2020


> On 23/06/2020 11:31 Jan Jurko <jan at jurko.cz> wrote:
> 
>  
> Good day.
> I have a dovecot 2.3.4.1 on debian 10 as an imap server. I found there are emails where the header field From has no encoding even if there is a name with special characters like Žlutý Kůň. The header looks like:
> 
> From: "Žlutý Kůň" <zluty.kun at domain.tld>
> 
> In this case the email client - roundcube, outlook etc. will show the From with wrong characters. This behaviour is typical only for dovecot, not for courier-imap - it was installed before dovecot with no problems.
> 
> If there is corretly encoded From filed, the client shows the From correctly.
> 
> Is there a way to set up the dovecot to show the field correctly even without encoding stuff? Some default/fallback settings?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help
> 
> Jan Jurko

Is it possible to get a sample mail corpus?

Aki


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