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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Craig Raw <cr...@quirk.biz> on 2007/02/08 13:28:28 UTC
Subject line problem
Hi,
I'm having a problem in James that I'm hoping one of the knowledgeable people on this list can help
with. Certain emails received by James are coming through with strange subject lines.
For example, an email sent with
Subject: Get a date/Got a date ? Axe become viral vigilantes
ends up in the inbox table with
Subject: =?ANSI_X3.4-1968?Q?Get_a_date/Got_a_date_=3F_Axe_become_viral_vigilantes?=
This same email works fine in Gmail. I imagine it has something to do with strange characters or
escaping the question mark - which was a dash originally, probably one of the unusual ones generated
by Microsoft Word.
Anyone?
Thanks,
Craig
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Re: Subject line problem
Posted by Michael Weissenbacher <mw...@dermichi.com>.
Hi,
which OS are you using? Have you defined a default locale?
try:
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
or
java -Dfile.encoding=CP1252
Michael
Craig Raw schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem in James that I'm hoping one of the knowledgeable
> people on this list can help with. Certain emails received by James are
> coming through with strange subject lines.
>
> For example, an email sent with
> Subject: Get a date/Got a date ? Axe become viral vigilantes
>
> ends up in the inbox table with
> Subject:
> =?ANSI_X3.4-1968?Q?Get_a_date/Got_a_date_=3F_Axe_become_viral_vigilantes?=
>
> This same email works fine in Gmail. I imagine it has something to do
> with strange characters or escaping the question mark - which was a dash
> originally, probably one of the unusual ones generated by Microsoft Word.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
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Re[2]: Subject line problem
Posted by Dima Retov <di...@axisway.com>.
Hi,
Does this email is created by james?
I think ANSI_X3.4-1968 is ASCII.
Dima
Friday, February 9, 2007, 10:58:39 AM, you wrote:
MW> Hi,
>> It is encoded according to following standard.
>>
>> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
>>
>> I think everything is Ok.
MW> that's theoritically true. But in practice there are some email programs
MW> out there (like MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird IIRC) that don't know
MW> about "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is also an very unusual character
MW> encoding. Ususally it should use something like ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8
MW> which displays fine in most email clients. Look at this subject line:
MW> hallo test mit subject =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=E4=F6=FC?=
MW> which is a correct encoding for:
MW> hallo test mit subject äöü
MW> and displays fine in both Thunderbird and Outlook.
MW> Michael
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Re: Subject line problem
Posted by Michael Weissenbacher <mw...@dermichi.com>.
Hi,
> It is encoded according to following standard.
>
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
>
> I think everything is Ok.
that's theoritically true. But in practice there are some email programs
out there (like MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird IIRC) that don't know
about "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is also an very unusual character
encoding. Ususally it should use something like ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8
which displays fine in most email clients. Look at this subject line:
hallo test mit subject =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=E4=F6=FC?=
which is a correct encoding for:
hallo test mit subject äöü
and displays fine in both Thunderbird and Outlook.
Michael
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Re: Subject line problem
Posted by Michael Weissenbacher <mw...@dermichi.com>.
Hi,
> Anyone have any ideas how I go about changing the encoding that James
> uses, which defaults to the ANSI one? I've tried the JVM params
> -Dfile.encoding=8859_1 -Dmail.mime.charset=iso-8859-15, with no change
> in the result.
Have you tried what i suggested yesterday?
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
or
java -Dfile.encoding=CP1252
Recent JVM's seem to ignore this parameter though, so you should try to
set the default locale on the OS level.
Michael
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Re: Subject line problem
Posted by Craig Raw <cr...@quirk.biz>.
Ok, this is great information, thanks.
Anyone have any ideas how I go about changing the encoding that James uses, which defaults to the
ANSI one? I've tried the JVM params -Dfile.encoding=8859_1 -Dmail.mime.charset=iso-8859-15, with no
change in the result.
Thanks,
Craig
Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> Hi,
> > It is encoded according to following standard.
> >
> > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
> >
> > I think everything is Ok.
> that's theoritically true. But in practice there are some email programs
> out there (like MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird IIRC) that don't know
> about "ANSI_X3.4-1968", which is also an very unusual character
> encoding. Ususally it should use something like ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8
> which displays fine in most email clients. Look at this subject line:
> hallo test mit subject =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=E4=F6=FC?=
> which is a correct encoding for:
> hallo test mit subject äöü
> and displays fine in both Thunderbird and Outlook.
>
> Michael
>
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Re: Subject line problem
Posted by Dima Retov <di...@axisway.com>.
Hi,
It is encoded according to following standard.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
I think everything is Ok.
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 2:28:28 PM, you wrote:
CR> Hi,
CR> I'm having a problem in James that I'm hoping one of the
CR> knowledgeable people on this list can help
CR> with. Certain emails received by James are coming through with strange subject lines.
CR> For example, an email sent with
CR> Subject: Get a date/Got a date ? Axe become viral vigilantes
CR> ends up in the inbox table with
CR> Subject:
CR> =?ANSI_X3.4-1968?Q?Get_a_date/Got_a_date_=3F_Axe_become_viral_vigilantes?=
CR> This same email works fine in Gmail. I imagine it has
CR> something to do with strange characters or
CR> escaping the question mark - which was a dash originally,
CR> probably one of the unusual ones generated
CR> by Microsoft Word.
CR> Anyone?
CR> Thanks,
CR> Craig
CR> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
CR> To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscribe@james.apache.org
CR> For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-help@james.apache.org
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Dima mailto:dima@axisway.com
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