Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:50:09 +0200, _Stanimir Stamenkov_: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:13:34 -0800 (PST), _jamielansford@gmail.com_: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. You've said in another reply the problem persists with previous 2.48 as with latest 2.49 versions as well. It could very well be a problem specific to your SeaMonkey profile settings – you may try reproducing it with a new clean profile, for example. In the mean time could you have a look at your SeaMonkey settings: Preferences / Mail & Newsgroups / Text Encoding and the "Default Text Encoding" in the "Server Settings" for specific Mail/News accounts – if you have changed any of the defaults it might lead to such unexpected results. Have a look at specific Mail/News folder Properties (right-click a folder), also: Fallback Text Encoding: [_] [ ] Apply encoding to all messages in the folder (individual message text encoding settings and auto-detection will be ignored) Also, have a look at the page: mailnews.force_charset_override false If you have it changed it to |true| instead – it would cause problems for sure. https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1042608 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556254 -- Stanimir ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:13:34 -0800 (PST), _jamielansford@gmail.com_: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. You've said in another reply the problem persists with previous 2.48 as with latest 2.49 versions as well. It could very well be a problem specific to your SeaMonkey profile settings – you may try reproducing it with a new clean profile, for example. In the mean time could you have a look at your SeaMonkey settings: Preferences / Mail & Newsgroups / Text Encoding and the "Default Text Encoding" in the "Server Settings" for specific Mail/News accounts – if you have changed any of the defaults it might lead to such unexpected results. Have a look at specific Mail/News folder Properties (right-click a folder), also: Fallback Text Encoding: [_] [ ] Apply encoding to all messages in the folder (individual message text encoding settings and auto-detection will be ignored) -- Stanimir ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Arnie Goetchius wrote: cmcadams wrote: Arnie Goetchius wrote: cmcadams wrote: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig A couple of years ago I was told to switch my SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to outbound.att.net. Don't know why you are still using smtp.att.yahoo.com Just my 2 cents. However, it may not have anything to do with your problem Because no one ever told me that. And I don't know either. Also POP3 is incoming.att.net It was covered here: https://forums.att.com/t5/AT-T-Internet-Email-Security/Update-Email-Server-Settings-for-AT-amp-T-Email/td-p/4312314 Interesting. Nope, nobody notified me, and all the old settings are still working. Frank-Rainer Grahl's suggestion worked today with the smpte server. It was a SM configuration problem. Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
cmcadams wrote: > Arnie Goetchius wrote: >> cmcadams wrote: >>> This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP >>> from smtp.att.yahoo.com to >>> smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the >>> same results. >>> BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up >>> after you click Send is a >>> true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. >>> >>> Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... >>> >>> Craig >> >> A couple of years ago I was told to switch my SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com >> to outbound.att.net. >> Don't know why you are still using smtp.att.yahoo.com Just my 2 cents. >> However, it may not have >> anything to do with your problem > > Because no one ever told me that. And I don't know either. Also POP3 is incoming.att.net It was covered here: https://forums.att.com/t5/AT-T-Internet-Email-Security/Update-Email-Server-Settings-for-AT-amp-T-Email/td-p/4312314 > >>> >>> Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code > with Thunderbird so if > you run this too try there also. > > FRG > The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson >>> >> > > ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:58:06 PM UTC-6, Jamie Lansford wrote: On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:14:04 PM UTC-6, cmcadams wrote: Thunderbird menus (as in the link) are different from SM, but I solved the problem of switching to smtp.gmail.com in 2.49.2 by the expedient of deleting smtp.att.yahoo.com. 2.49.2 doesn't seem to like being required to use multiple smtp servers, any more than switching default search engines. As an experiment I reinstalled SM 2.48. End of problems. 2.48 has no problem sending through gmail's smtp without needing to delete anything. Or with sending through Yahoo's smtp without producing spurious characters in the final result. So I'll be using 2.48 at least until 2.49.3 arrives. This is sad! Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 cmcadams wrote: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson I just tried to reinstall 2.48, but the problem persisted for me. I am still on 2.48, and had to add gmail outgoing smtp info and delete the outbound.att.net. Google sent me messages that (1) someone tried to access and I got an error message and to allow access to less secure apps and then when I allowed it (2) got another message that access for less secure apps has been turned on and telling me it will be easier to break into my account and I could undo the change and switch to apps made by google such as Gmail. I am going to try to go back to 2.49.2 and see if they get over the insecurity issue, but regardless, it got rid of the random punctuation!! Thanks to everyone and let's hope that 2.49.3 resolves the issue. If you get a gmail warning for something you've just done intentionally, it's generally okay to just say yes and let it pass. Frank-Rainer Grahl's suggestion to go to about:config and toggle mail.strictly_mime to true in 2.49.2 does seem to work with the spurious characters and I can also switch between smtpe servers and have it stick. I'm also reading in this thread that yahoo may have just changed its settings. So I don't actually know... :P ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Arnie Goetchius wrote: cmcadams wrote: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig A couple of years ago I was told to switch my SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to outbound.att.net. Don't know why you are still using smtp.att.yahoo.com Just my 2 cents. However, it may not have anything to do with your problem Because no one ever told me that. And I don't know either. Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On 2/22/2018 3:28 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Currently this points to a yahoo mail server issue and not to a SeaMonkey or Thunderbird problem. Try setting mail.strictly_mime to true and see if it solves your problem. FRG I think someone at Yahoo/ATT fixed it. As of 6:00 CST 2/22 my outbound emails sent through SeaMonkey do not exhibit the problem. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
cmcadams wrote: > This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP > from smtp.att.yahoo.com to > smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the > same results. > BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up > after you click Send is a > true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. > > Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... > > Craig A couple of years ago I was told to switch my SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to outbound.att.net. Don't know why you are still using smtp.att.yahoo.com Just my 2 cents. However, it may not have anything to do with your problem > > Lemuel Johnson wrote: >> On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: >>> If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code >>> with Thunderbird so if >>> you run this too try there also. >>> >>> FRG >>> >> >> The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through >> the ATT/Yahoo SMTP >> server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) >> server. >> >> This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to >> even acknowledge >> there was a problem. >> >> They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to >> inundate us with ads in >> webmail. >> >> Lem Johnson > ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Currently this points to a yahoo mail server issue and not to a SeaMonkey or Thunderbird problem. Try setting mail.strictly_mime to true and see if it solves your problem. FRG jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:58:06 PM UTC-6, Jamie Lansford wrote: On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:14:04 PM UTC-6, cmcadams wrote: Thunderbird menus (as in the link) are different from SM, but I solved the problem of switching to smtp.gmail.com in 2.49.2 by the expedient of deleting smtp.att.yahoo.com. 2.49.2 doesn't seem to like being required to use multiple smtp servers, any more than switching default search engines. As an experiment I reinstalled SM 2.48. End of problems. 2.48 has no problem sending through gmail's smtp without needing to delete anything. Or with sending through Yahoo's smtp without producing spurious characters in the final result. So I'll be using 2.48 at least until 2.49.3 arrives. This is sad! Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 cmcadams wrote: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson I just tried to reinstall 2.48, but the problem persisted for me. I am still on 2.48, and had to add gmail outgoing smtp info and delete the outbound.att.net. Google sent me messages that (1) someone tried to access and I got an error message and to allow access to less secure apps and then when I allowed it (2) got another message that access for less secure apps has been turned on and telling me it will be easier to break into my account and I could undo the change and switch to apps made by google such as Gmail. I am going to try to go back to 2.49.2 and see if they get over the insecurity issue, but regardless, it got rid of the random punctuation!! Thanks to everyone and let's hope that 2.49.3 resolves the issue. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:58:06 PM UTC-6, Jamie Lansford wrote: > On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:14:04 PM UTC-6, cmcadams wrote: > > Thunderbird menus (as in the link) are different from SM, but I solved the > > problem of > > switching to smtp.gmail.com in 2.49.2 by the expedient of deleting > > smtp.att.yahoo.com. > > > > 2.49.2 doesn't seem to like being required to use multiple smtp servers, > > any more > > than switching default search engines. > > > > As an experiment I reinstalled SM 2.48. End of problems. 2.48 has no > > problem sending > > through gmail's smtp without needing to delete anything. Or with sending > > through > > Yahoo's smtp without producing spurious characters in the final result. > > > > So I'll be using 2.48 at least until 2.49.3 arrives. This is sad! > > > > > > Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > > > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 > > > > > > cmcadams wrote: > > >> This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default > > >> SMTP from > > >> smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example > > >> I tried > > >> before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP > > >> server, if > > >> the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was > > >> still using > > >> att.yahoo.com. > > >> > > >> Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... > > >> > > >> Craig > > >> > > >> > > >> Lemuel Johnson wrote: > > >>> On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > > If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news > > code with > > Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. > > > > FRG > > > > >>> > > >>> The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send > > >>> through the > > >>> ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting > > >>> company > > >>> (Bluehost) server. > > >>> > > >>> This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for > > >>> them to even > > >>> acknowledge there was a problem. > > >>> > > >>> They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to > > >>> inundate us > > >>> with ads in webmail. > > >>> > > >>> Lem Johnson > > >> > > I just tried to reinstall 2.48, but the problem persisted for me. I am still on 2.48, and had to add gmail outgoing smtp info and delete the outbound.att.net. Google sent me messages that (1) someone tried to access and I got an error message and to allow access to less secure apps and then when I allowed it (2) got another message that access for less secure apps has been turned on and telling me it will be easier to break into my account and I could undo the change and switch to apps made by google such as Gmail. I am going to try to go back to 2.49.2 and see if they get over the insecurity issue, but regardless, it got rid of the random punctuation!! Thanks to everyone and let's hope that 2.49.3 resolves the issue. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:14:04 PM UTC-6, cmcadams wrote: > Thunderbird menus (as in the link) are different from SM, but I solved the > problem of > switching to smtp.gmail.com in 2.49.2 by the expedient of deleting > smtp.att.yahoo.com. > > 2.49.2 doesn't seem to like being required to use multiple smtp servers, any > more > than switching default search engines. > > As an experiment I reinstalled SM 2.48. End of problems. 2.48 has no problem > sending > through gmail's smtp without needing to delete anything. Or with sending > through > Yahoo's smtp without producing spurious characters in the final result. > > So I'll be using 2.48 at least until 2.49.3 arrives. This is sad! > > > Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 > > > > cmcadams wrote: > >> This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP > >> from > >> smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I > >> tried > >> before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP > >> server, if > >> the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was > >> still using > >> att.yahoo.com. > >> > >> Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... > >> > >> Craig > >> > >> > >> Lemuel Johnson wrote: > >>> On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code > with > Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. > > FRG > > >>> > >>> The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through > >>> the > >>> ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting > >>> company > >>> (Bluehost) server. > >>> > >>> This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them > >>> to even > >>> acknowledge there was a problem. > >>> > >>> They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to > >>> inundate us > >>> with ads in webmail. > >>> > >>> Lem Johnson > >> I just tried to reinstall 2.48, but the problem persisted for me. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 12:14:04 PM UTC-6, cmcadams wrote: > Thunderbird menus (as in the link) are different from SM, but I solved the > problem of > switching to smtp.gmail.com in 2.49.2 by the expedient of deleting > smtp.att.yahoo.com. > > 2.49.2 doesn't seem to like being required to use multiple smtp servers, any > more > than switching default search engines. > > As an experiment I reinstalled SM 2.48. End of problems. 2.48 has no problem > sending > through gmail's smtp without needing to delete anything. Or with sending > through > Yahoo's smtp without producing spurious characters in the final result. > > So I'll be using 2.48 at least until 2.49.3 arrives. This is sad! > > > Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 > > > > cmcadams wrote: > >> This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP > >> from > >> smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I > >> tried > >> before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP > >> server, if > >> the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was > >> still using > >> att.yahoo.com. > >> > >> Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... > >> > >> Craig > >> > >> > >> Lemuel Johnson wrote: > >>> On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code > with > Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. > > FRG > > >>> > >>> The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through > >>> the > >>> ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting > >>> company > >>> (Bluehost) server. > >>> > >>> This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them > >>> to even > >>> acknowledge there was a problem. > >>> > >>> They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to > >>> inundate us > >>> with ads in webmail. > >>> > >>> Lem Johnson > >> I will try going back to 2.48. I had the problem using 2.49.1 and hoped 2.49.2 would fix it, but evidently not. I am not sure about changing servers as I am concerned it will mess up my phone and tablet email, but I am willing to try to live with 2.48 for now. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 2:20:51 AM UTC-6, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with > Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. > > FRG > > > cmcadams wrote: > > jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. > >> Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, > >> sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this > >> correctly, > >> but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: > >> > >> No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? > >> > >> Another example: > >> > >> > >> ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost > >> of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose > >> effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending > >> rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten > >> admitted. > >> > >> Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's > >> getting > >> embarrassing. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > > > > Bingo! I was getting this last night sending quotes from a story on the BBC > > website in an HTML email. In my case single quotes "'" and double quotes > > '"' > > and hyphens "-" were also being converted to multiple question marks in > > both > > the Yahoo and Gmail web browsers. > > > > I reverted to SM 2.49.1 to see if the problem was solely with 2.49.2, but > > it > > wasn't. The problem also occurred when sending from 2.49.1. > > > > My best thought was that BBC was intentionally using nonstandard > > 'lookalike' > > characters, to make copying more difficult, with characters from > > non-English > > character sets that the online browsers couldn't deal with. > > > > For inquiring minds: > > > > http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170303-eight-words-that-changed-the-way-we-think > > > > > > > > I don't really know how to do bug reporting. Beyond my skill set, I am afraid. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Thunderbird menus (as in the link) are different from SM, but I solved the problem of switching to smtp.gmail.com in 2.49.2 by the expedient of deleting smtp.att.yahoo.com. 2.49.2 doesn't seem to like being required to use multiple smtp servers, any more than switching default search engines. As an experiment I reinstalled SM 2.48. End of problems. 2.48 has no problem sending through gmail's smtp without needing to delete anything. Or with sending through Yahoo's smtp without producing spurious characters in the final result. So I'll be using 2.48 at least until 2.49.3 arrives. This is sad! Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 cmcadams wrote: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3038519&start=15 cmcadams wrote: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On 2/21/2018 at 11:17 PM, cmcadams created this epitome of digital genius: This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Change the SMTP server for the email account itself. It may be set to use a specific server instead of the default. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ "The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." - Alben W. Barkley (1877-1956) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
This is interesting. As an experiment I changed my SM 2.49.2 default SMTP from smtp.att.yahoo.com to smtp.gmail.com. Then I tried repeating the example I tried before with the same results. BUT...Seamonkey was NOT using Gmail's SMTP server, if the box that pops up after you click Send is a true indication. It was still using att.yahoo.com. Either something's wrong or PEBKAC... Craig Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On 2/21/2018 4:32 PM, Ray_Net wrote: Lemuel Johnson wrote on 21-02-18 20:54: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson Perhaps the problem is because both mail/clients did not use the same charset ... The problem occurs on notes I send to myself...! Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Lemuel Johnson wrote on 21-02-18 20:54: On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson Perhaps the problem is because both mail/clients did not use the same charset ... ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On 2/21/2018 2:20 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG The problem occurs in both current TB and SM. But ONLY if I send through the ATT/Yahoo SMTP server. The issue does not appear if I use my hosting company (Bluehost) server. This is bad. The last time I went down this road it took MONTHS for them to even acknowledge there was a problem. They do not want people to use email clients. They want to be able to inundate us with ads in webmail. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Yes to both, so we shall see. No obvious category for the email component, so categorized under General. Craig Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG cmcadams wrote: jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. Thank you. Bingo! I was getting this last night sending quotes from a story on the BBC website in an HTML email. In my case single quotes "'" and double quotes '"' and hyphens "-" were also being converted to multiple question marks in both the Yahoo and Gmail web browsers. I reverted to SM 2.49.1 to see if the problem was solely with 2.49.2, but it wasn't. The problem also occurred when sending from 2.49.1. My best thought was that BBC was intentionally using nonstandard 'lookalike' characters, to make copying more difficult, with characters from non-English character sets that the online browsers couldn't deal with. For inquiring minds: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170303-eight-words-that-changed-the-way-we-think ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
If you can reproduce it file a bug. Might be in shared mail / news code with Thunderbird so if you run this too try there also. FRG cmcadams wrote: jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. Thank you. Bingo! I was getting this last night sending quotes from a story on the BBC website in an HTML email. In my case single quotes "'" and double quotes '"' and hyphens "-" were also being converted to multiple question marks in both the Yahoo and Gmail web browsers. I reverted to SM 2.49.1 to see if the problem was solely with 2.49.2, but it wasn't. The problem also occurred when sending from 2.49.1. My best thought was that BBC was intentionally using nonstandard 'lookalike' characters, to make copying more difficult, with characters from non-English character sets that the online browsers couldn't deal with. For inquiring minds: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170303-eight-words-that-changed-the-way-we-think ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. Thank you. Bingo! I was getting this last night sending quotes from a story on the BBC website in an HTML email. In my case single quotes "'" and double quotes '"' and hyphens "-" were also being converted to multiple question marks in both the Yahoo and Gmail web browsers. I reverted to SM 2.49.1 to see if the problem was solely with 2.49.2, but it wasn't. The problem also occurred when sending from 2.49.1. My best thought was that BBC was intentionally using nonstandard 'lookalike' characters, to make copying more difficult, with characters from non-English character sets that the online browsers couldn't deal with. For inquiring minds: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170303-eight-words-that-changed-the-way-we-think ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
Lemuel Johnson wrote: On 2/20/2018 6:13 PM, jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. Thank you. Happened to me today as well. Looks like it's every time I double-space after a period (not breaking that habit). This is a note I just sent to myself: This is followed by two spaces.?? This is followed by a single space. This is more text. Lem Johnson Something similar Happened a while back to a post that I made. I am in the habit of using two spaces after a full stop (period) before a new sentence. I don't remember who it was, but someone asked why I was putting, I think, x'0A32' before the new sentence. IIRC, we never did figure out what was going on but either the first or second space somehow got changed to a non-standard character. All of the sentences in this message (except the first, of course) are preceded by two spaces like here without the full stop (period). This is written with the latest, just downloaded and installed version of SeaMonkey, 2.49.2 -- Frosted Flake ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. Not happening with 2.49.1. But I have noted an annoying tendency to eliminate the blank line after quoted material before my new text. I've gotten in the habit of saving to Drafts to inspect before sending. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Strange punctuation randomly inserted in email
On 2/20/2018 6:13 PM, jamielansf...@gmail.com wrote: I typically bcc myself and so I see replies and messages I have sent. Lately, SeaMonkey seems to be inserting random punctuation or graphics, sometimes where I had entered spaces. For example, I typed this correctly, but this is what appeared in the copy I sent to myself: No.?? They went up to $100 per, effective -- I believe -- January 1.?? Another example: ?? I am sorry that when I wrote the email the other day about the cost of PHV, I did not realize that the PHV fee had been doubled, I suppose effective as of January 1.?? I still think the money is worth spending rather than having issues at deposition or later for not having gotten admitted. Any ideas what to do about this would be largely appreciated. It's getting embarrassing. Thank you. Happened to me today as well. Looks like it's every time I double-space after a period (not breaking that habit). This is a note I just sent to myself: This is followed by two spaces.?? This is followed by a single space. This is more text. Lem Johnson ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey