[EXT] Re: from field encoding

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Tue Jun 23 16:09:19 EEST 2020


Would it be possible at least to provide headers from such mail? Mostly I am interested in what content encodings are specified? You can remove sender/recipient/subject/message-id and such identifying information, but would prefer if you'd leave that ""Ing. Markéta Kleinová"' bit intact.

Aki


> On 23/06/2020 14:01 Jan Jurko <jan at jurko.cz> wrote:
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> unfortunately im not authorized to publish the whole headers and content, but as an example:
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> in headers:
> To:""Ing. Markéta Kleinová"' <x at xxx.xx>
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> view in the webmail or outlook
> "Ing. Markéta Kleinová"
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> and it should be Ing. Markéta Kleinová
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> The problem is with From and To headers.
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> > 23. 6. 2020 v 10:43, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>:
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> > > On 23/06/2020 11:31 Jan Jurko <jan at jurko.cz> wrote:
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> > > 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>
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> > > 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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