Dear Colleagues, I`m trying to understand how E-mail encoding is working, maybe somebody will be able to explain me how its working with Postfix and some E-mail client like Thunderbird for example.
When I`m sending an E-mail from server command line (telnet localhost 25) my E-mail has following header. If I good understand "charset=us-ascii" come from the system local settings. On the server I have installed us_US settings. Is that right ? My local setting for an encoding is: LANG=en_US.utf8 # ###################### Subject: test message User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit # ###################### My server is also used by some other application servers as an relay machine to resend messages. One of the application sending an E-mails using german encoding. Now comes my question. My Postfix is running in the environment with LANG=en_US.utf8. So if I good understand each E-mail which will be send by my Postfix server will have changed encoding from german to english ? I mean from de_DE.utf8 to en_US.utf8. Is that right ? Where encoding should be setup ? On the server or on the client side ? Thanks in advance for an any hints ! With kind regards Zalezny
