On 11/24/18 10:24 AM, André Rodier wrote:
> On 2018-11-24 15:16, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 11/24/18 9:41 AM, André Rodier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a program (SOGo), installed on my mail server, that send emails
>>> using the quoted-printable encoding for From/To headers.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, none of the email clients I use seems to display them
>>> correctly:
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>> From     =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9?= Rodier <an...@rodier.me>
>>> To     =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9?= Rodier <an...@rodier.me>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Is there any reason for that ?
>>> is a header missing:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help
>>>
>>> André Rodier
>>>
>> First, are your clients compliant with the RFC that define encoding of
>> headers (which are later/less supported than those that define the
>> encoding of the body)?
>>
>> For example, RFC 2047  (I think the latest RFC that defines this
>> encoding). I don't think you need any header to enable this support,
>> just a compliant MUA.
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I would think it is a bug in the SOGo software, because other emails
> are using quoted-printable too, but are displayed correctly, for
> instance this one:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Return-Path: <an...@rodier.me>
> Received: from osaka.rodier.me
>     by osaka.office.pmc with LMTP id 0P2UH/1p+VvAFAAAnYgw/w
>     ; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:10:53 +0000
> Received: from osaka.rodier.me (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>     by osaka.rodier.me (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6406A2063B
>     for <an...@rodier.me>; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:10:53 +0000 (GMT)
> Received: by osaka.rodier.me (Postfix, from userid 132)
>     id 431B720662; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:10:53 +0000 (GMT)
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
> To: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_Rodier?= <an...@rodier.me>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:10:53 +0000
> Subject: The event =?utf-8?q?=22Hello=22?= was created
> Message-ID: <1403-5bf96a00-5-79d0b280@98295310>
> From: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_Rodier?= <an...@rodier.me>
> X-AV-Checked: ClamSMTP (Client IP: 127.0.0.1)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Fortunately, Thunderbird, Evolution and Roundcube are behaving the same.
>
>
I use Thunderbird myself, and your message displays fine. The one
difference I see is that the character set and encoding in your mail
client is coming in upper case, while the example has it in lower case.
I thought the RFC said that this was case insensitive, but maybe some
implementations are case sensitive.

-- 
Richard Damon

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