This is done because the us-ascii character set does not include support for accented characters (José). This string also utilized quoted printable. I would think that the decoding of this string should be handled not by the server, but rather by the client. If this is something that DBMail should support, are you sure that you have proper unicode support on your system?
[ Brandon Adams ] bmadams at gmail dot com On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, John Fawcett <[email protected]> wrote: > It's likely a bug of the sending client (probably a webmail service). > Shouldn't the from header contain only ascii encoding? > John > > Aaron Stone wrote: > > I've noticed this, too. It's not an added header, it's a mis-decoded > > header. I suspect a GMime bug; perhaps Paul has identified which versions > > of GMime are buggy in this way? > > > > Aaron > > > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:19:41 +0200, Marc Dirix < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I'm on 2.2.11. > >> > >> Often some customers receive emails with incorrect (or strangely > >> encoded) From headers. This From header then gets mangled > >> at some point between reception and delivery. > >> > >> The newly formed From header has been mangled, and > >> @host.domain of the mailserver has been added. > >> See here a resulting header: > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> If now the customers replies to this, obviously the email is > >> not delivered to the original sender. > >> > >> Is it possible dbmail at some point adds the header? > >> Er should I be looking through spamassassin or postfix? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Marc > >> _______________________________________________ > >> DBmail mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > DBmail mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > > > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
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