On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:20 am, Mohammed Yousif wrote: > + on "Filter Criteria" choose from the first combo box "<any header>" > and type "content-type" on the first text box. (You could typed > the encoding name explicitly but not all emails set that value, this > criteria should match any email utf8, cp1256 or even iso-8859-1). > + on the "Filter Actions" choose from the combo box "pipe through" and > type "iconv -f WINDOWS-1256 -t UTF-8" on the text box to its left. > + Now press OK and you are done.
Thanks for the tip Mohammed. I just want to raise some issues regarding your method and correct me if I am mistaken: 1. Some messages don't even have this Content-Type header like the messages sent by Microsoft Outlook Express 5/6. This can be solved by typing another header like "Received" on the "Filter Criteria" "contains" text box. 2. It's dangerous! Runnig the filter more than once will render the document unreadable. 3. Won't it better if we can also add a rewrite header action to cope with this change in the encoding so the auto encoding option won't give wrong results? how? Again thanks for this piece of info. -- __/ __/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _\ _/ _\ _/ _/ \ / _\ unzir _/ aha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distro/mdkarabicsupport.html CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
