Yup, but they all look fine on this end and come out in Greek on the other end... So where between my sent folder and their inbox is it getting corrupted?
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:59, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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 -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://www.openconcept.ca Fair Vote Petition - http://www.fairvotecanada.org/petition.php The masterʼs tools will never dismantle the masterʼs house - A Lorde _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
