On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:51:23AM -0700, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Jochen Garcke wrote: > > I have a problem using mail_search for mails with umlauts in From, > > Subject or so... See the following IMAP output: > > > > 00000077 SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL SENTON 13-Mar-2002 FROM "XXXX ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" TO "[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jochen Garcke)" SUBJECT "Re: >=?iso-8859-1?Q?Komplexit=E4t_des_Einf=FCge?=" > > * SEARCH > > 00000077 OK SEARCH done. > > The problem is that you are giving a MIME encoded-word as the text for the > SUBJECT search. > > You need to give an 8-bit string in the character set identified by the > CHARSET after SEARCH.
I assumed that I could use the subject which I get via e.g. mail_fetchenvelope or mail_fetchheader, which the above is, for a search via mail_search. So that is not the case ? Is there an easy way to convert the above into an 8-bit string ? Thanks, Jochen -- Jochen Garcke mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Uni Bonn wissrech.iam.uni-bonn.de GCD Deutschland (Die Comic Datenbank) www.garcke.de/GCD The future is viridian www.viridiandesign.org
