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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Marc de Oliveira <Ma...@deOliveira.dk> on 2005/08/18 17:55:18 UTC
=12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
I have noticed that mails containing the string "=12" get the "=12" string
converted to a special character (displayed as a square) when being opened
by Outlook Express.
The mail placed in the receiver's James inbox folder is not converted, so it
seems to happen when the file is opened by Outlook Express.
Has anybody seen this? Can it be avoided?
- Marc
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Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
Posted by Marc de Oliveira <Ma...@deOliveira.dk>.
Well, it obviously does not happen when sending the mail from Outlook
Express...
My problem happens when I generate the mail programatically.
Any help would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc de Oliveira" <Ma...@deOliveira.dk>
To: "James Users List" <se...@james.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
>I have noticed that mails containing the string "=12" get the "=12" string
>converted to a special character (displayed as a square) when being opened
>by Outlook Express.
>
> The mail placed in the receiver's James inbox folder is not converted, so
> it seems to happen when the file is opened by Outlook Express.
>
> Has anybody seen this? Can it be avoided?
>
> - Marc
>
>
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RE: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
Posted by Hans Liebenberg <ha...@cambrient.com>.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano Bagnara [mailto:apache@bago.org]
Sent: 19 August 2005 10:11 AM
To: 'James Users List'
Subject: Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
> > I guess that's it. I fixed the problem by setting
> > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" in the header.
>
> Yuk, 8bit is nasty some mailservers may break your message.
Correct: Javamail will not automatically convert from 8bit to 7bit when
sending to a server that does not support 8bitmime. Latest james trunk will
correctly receive 8bitmime and convert it to 7bit when needed (I submitted
the RemoteDelivery patch few days ago). You can also look at the
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/trunk/src/java/org/apache/james
/transport/mailets/RemoteDelivery.java sources. (See the convertTo7Bit
method and callee).
Stefano
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Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
Posted by Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>.
> > I guess that's it. I fixed the problem by setting
> > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" in the header.
>
> Yuk, 8bit is nasty some mailservers may break your message.
Correct: Javamail will not automatically convert from 8bit to 7bit when
sending to a server that does not support 8bitmime.
Latest james trunk will correctly receive 8bitmime and convert it to 7bit
when needed (I submitted the RemoteDelivery patch few days ago).
You can also look at the
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/trunk/src/java/org/apache/james
/transport/mailets/RemoteDelivery.java sources. (See the convertTo7Bit
method and callee).
Stefano
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Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
Posted by Danny Angus <Da...@slc.co.uk>.
> I guess that's it. I fixed the problem by setting
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" in the header.
Yuk, 8bit is nasty some mailservers may break your message.
d.
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Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
Posted by Marc de Oliveira <Ma...@deOliveira.dk>.
I guess that's it. I fixed the problem by setting
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" in the header.
Thanks,
Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefano Bagnara" <ap...@bago.org>
To: "'James Users List'" <se...@james.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
> =12 is decoded to a square when the =12 is inside a quoted-printable
> encoded
> text.
> "=" is a special char for the "quoted-printable" encoding. An "=" followed
> by 2 numbers means that the decoded char will be the ascii char identified
> by the 2 numbers.
> "quoted-printable" is the most used encoding for texts.
>
> To avoid the problem you have to decode the message, add your text and
> reencode the message to quotedprintable. Otherwise you are changing an
> encoded text.
>
> Stefano
>
>> I have noticed that mails containing the string "=12" get the
>> "=12" string converted to a special character (displayed as a
>> square) when being opened by Outlook Express.
>>
>> The mail placed in the receiver's James inbox folder is not
>> converted, so it seems to happen when the file is opened by
>> Outlook Express.
>>
>> Has anybody seen this? Can it be avoided?
>>
>> - Marc
>
>
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Re: Mailing List - Personalisation
Posted by Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>.
> I know I can write a custom mailet/matcher to do this but was
> wondering if James has any build in support for personalisation.
No, James in its standard distribution does not have mail-merge features,
sorry.
Stefano
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Mailing List - Personalisation
Posted by Hans Liebenberg <ha...@cambrient.com>.
Hi,
Is it possible to configure the mailing list within James to do basic
personalisation in a message. E.g
To relpace a placehoilder with the guys first name. So that the message says
Hi Bob,
[the message here]
I know I can write a custom mailet/matcher to do this but was wondering if
James has any build in support for personalisation.
Thanks
Hans
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Re: =12 becomes other character in Outlook Express
Posted by Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>.
=12 is decoded to a square when the =12 is inside a quoted-printable encoded
text.
"=" is a special char for the "quoted-printable" encoding. An "=" followed
by 2 numbers means that the decoded char will be the ascii char identified
by the 2 numbers.
"quoted-printable" is the most used encoding for texts.
To avoid the problem you have to decode the message, add your text and
reencode the message to quotedprintable. Otherwise you are changing an
encoded text.
Stefano
> I have noticed that mails containing the string "=12" get the
> "=12" string converted to a special character (displayed as a
> square) when being opened by Outlook Express.
>
> The mail placed in the receiver's James inbox folder is not
> converted, so it seems to happen when the file is opened by
> Outlook Express.
>
> Has anybody seen this? Can it be avoided?
>
> - Marc
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