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icon1.gif   MIME encoding of mail?, posted by Michael Husbyn on Thu Feb 10 09:03:02 2005 
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                      icon2.gif   Re: MIME encoding of mail?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Apr 15 21:10:27 2005 
                         icon2.gif   Re: MIME encoding of mail?, posted by Michael Husbyn on Fri Apr 15 21:31:26 2005 
                            icon2.gif   Re: MIME encoding of mail?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Apr 15 21:49:00 2005 
                               icon2.gif   Re: MIME encoding of mail?, posted by Michael Husbyn on Fri Apr 15 22:24:49 2005 
    icon2.gif   Re: MIME encoding of mail?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Apr 15 21:14:05 2005 
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Icon: Entry  Author: Michael Husbyn  Author Email: michaelh@online.no 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.5.6-1 
Subject: MIME encoding of mail? 
Hello,

This software is very good :) I like it, but I have some trouble with some
emails that I send from the system.

It seems that Outlook 2000 does not handle norwegian characters in the
Subject field when sending mails. We have Exchange and I don't know what
SMTP server that fetches mail from. We are sending mail out via sendmail on
RedHat ES V3 server.

Example (what it should be)

Subject: Testing ורז

Becomes
Subject: IKT sak =?UNKNOWN?B?KDYwKTo=?= Testing =?UNKNOWN?B?5fjm?=

config:
Use Email Subject = IKT sak ($message id): $Tittel

Ofcource this is only happens in Outlook. Sending to gmail reports it OK.
I've also seen that mutt sometimes replaces the  ורז with ? at my Linux
system at home.

Ofcource all this could be due to misconfigured clients. Outlook receives
mails with ורז fine when send from allmost all other systems.

I've suspect that this could be some old 7 bit / 8 bit problem or that the
mail is not properly encoded in MIME format?

If i send mail without any ורז characters in subject the subject is
displayed the way it should be.

Not a big problem though, not sure that it has been reportet before.
Searched for mime and found nothing useful.


Have a nice day!


Best regards
Michael
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