Le Mardi 29 Mai 2007 11:34, Joachim Schipper a icrit : > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:37:42PM -0600, Philip Guenther wrote: > > On 5/28/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am serving up email via imap (courier-imap) on OpenBSD 4.0. > > > > > >My users (with Outlook) complain of french characters being garbled. > > >How can I fix this? > > > > The same way any problem is fixed: by determining which part isn't > > behaving correctly and fixing it. In this case, the possible guilty > > parties include > > A) the sending party: are the messages being marked with the correct > > charset in > > the Content-Type header field? > > B) the IMAP server: is it returning the message accurately and > > calculating the > > ENVELOPE and BODYSTRUCTURE FETCH items correctly? > > C) Outlook: is it presenting the messages accurately as it was received > > from the > > IMAP server? > > > > However, this is all off-topic to OpenBSD, as the IMAP server behavior > > should not dependend on the OS. I suggest you take your question to > > the comp.mail.imap newgroup after doing your best to answer the > > questions suggested above. > > > > Note that when you post there you should, at a *minimum*, clarify what > > is garbled (subjects, bodies, or both) and to what extent they are > > "garbled": is it just the non-ASCII characters (those with accents and > > cedilla and accents), all letters but not numbers or punctuation, or > > all characters? > > Nah, misc@ does handle more off-topic questions; that's not a reason to > tell someone off to a more specialized group, though it's true that the > people there might be more capable of answering such a question. > > I'd try the following: > > 0. Get one of the complainers to provide you with a full (headers+body) > e-mail and a copy that has been `fixed' (i.e., looks like it should). > 1. Verify that the fixed version is properly formatted > 2. Verify that Outlook can display it properly > 3. Send it as-is to your mail server (nc mail.localdomain smtp < > mail.fixed) > 4. Look in the logs. Did anything interesting happen? If not, just get > the message-id. > 5. Retrieve the file directly from the mail spool. Is this already > mangled? If so, good luck - that shouldn't happen. (And it's most likely > a spam filter, not your MTA proper, that mangled it, as MTAs, at most, > care for headers; try to disable the filter for a test account and run > the test again.) > 6. Retrieve the message via IMAP, using any known-good client. nc works > fine; mutt might work, too. Is this mangled? If yes, fix the IMAP > server, this shouldn't happen either. > 7. Retrieve the message using Outlook. Is it broken? If so, something > truly weird is going on, as the fixed version displated just fine in > step 1... > > Post back with the information required by Philip and me, plus log > files, and if at all possible complete copies of the messages.
Thank you Joachim. It may take a while but I will report back. Juan Miscara
