the message saved in your Sent folder also works :-) Jeff
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:55, Mike Gifford wrote: > Their mailers could be screwed, but it's a pretty huge company > (sympatico.ca) so I think they'd have someone look into it.. But it's > an intermittent problem, so who knows.. > > Hmm.. I suppose I could just bcc myself on everything... That should > give me a duplicate of the problem as much as is possible... > > Mike > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:50, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > I have no idea, perhaps their mailers are broken :-) > > > > You should probably use iso-8859-1 rather than UTF-8 as a number of > > mailers out there are still back in the stone age and don't yet support > > UTF-8, sadly. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:45, Mike Gifford wrote: > > > Hello Jeff, > > > > > > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. > > > > > > It was set to Western European (ISO-8859-1) previously. I've since > > > changed it to UTF-8. > > > > > > If both should work fine for sending English characters, why have I > > > gotten 3 emails in the last 2 weeks saying that folks can't read my > > > emails (because of problems with the character set). > > > > > > I've only heard back from folks I communicate with on a fairly regular > > > basis. I haven't been able to get a look at the headers from the emails > > > yet.. It might just be a problem with some folks on some email clients > > > (probably OutLook), but I've never had this problem before... > > > > > > Could the character set be corrupted somewhere else? Perhaps by my > > > ISP's SMTP server? > > > > > > I'm grasping at straws here.. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:35, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > Evolution uses your systems charset by default (which is UTF-8 on Red > > > > Hat 8 and 9, for example). If you are just sending English, you can use > > > > ISO-8859-1. > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:14, Mike Gifford wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I've received notices from a couple people know that my messages aren't > > > > > readable. One person thought it was greek another croatian. > > > > > > > > > > Most recently it was this message that a client reported: > > > > > > > > > > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the > > > > > > Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the > > > > > > attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the > > > > > > attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display > > > > > > the original character set. > > > > > > > > > > I only use text messages, so I found this very confusing. My default > > > > > character set was set to Western European (which I figured would be fine > > > > > for English). What should it be for English? I've switched it to UTF-8 > > > > > as that seems to be the default. > > > > > > > > > > I'm using Evolution 1.4.4 > > > > > > > > > > I'm starting to get worried that a whole wack of emails that I've sent > > > > > might be undecipherable by the folks on the other end. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mike -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
