cc field corrupt when receiving emails with umlaut characters
Hi
We current have an issue where when we send emails to one of our sister companies the cc field becomes corrupt at the receivers end when one of the email addresses contains for example a 'ü' character in the email address.
The cc field is appearing like this:
Cc: =?UTF-8?B?RMO8aHJrb3AgR2Vy
Instead of the proper email addresses.
We are using Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 and the recipient is using Exchange/Outlook 2007
Any help much appreciated!
We current have an issue where when we send emails to one of our sister companies the cc field becomes corrupt at the receivers end when one of the email addresses contains for example a 'ü' character in the email address.
The cc field is appearing like this:
Cc: =?UTF-8?B?RMO8aHJrb3AgR2Vy
Instead of the proper email addresses.
We are using Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 and the recipient is using Exchange/Outlook 2007
Any help much appreciated!
jcimarron
intouchsystems--Use "ue" instead of ü.
The CC is not corrupt, it is encoded using UTF-8 character standard.
The issue is that it is not clear whether your email client sends it out with the CC field utf-8 encoded or whether it is the receiving side that does that.
Try including your other email address on one of the free email services, hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc. and see if the CC field is also in UTF-8?
The other option if the recipient chooses to reply to all, is their CC field now displays all the readable email address or not?
In outlook, I think the user can check for the encoding of their client which might when set decode the UTF-8 encoded strings and convert them.
The issue is that it is not clear whether your email client sends it out with the CC field utf-8 encoded or whether it is the receiving side that does that.
Try including your other email address on one of the free email services, hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc. and see if the CC field is also in UTF-8?
The other option if the recipient chooses to reply to all, is their CC field now displays all the readable email address or not?
In outlook, I think the user can check for the encoding of their client which might when set decode the UTF-8 encoded strings and convert them.
intouchsystems--The cc field you indicate is indeed hard to imagine and does not look like an email address
From where are you getting that address from? Is "@exmf020-4.serverdata.net
Is this what you are you entering it into the CC: field.? Where is the umlaut? If you have a more proper email address for that person, ener it manually into the CC: field--even with umlaut.
From where are you getting that address from? Is "@exmf020-4.serverdata.net
Is this what you are you entering it into the CC: field.? Where is the umlaut? If you have a more proper email address for that person, ener it manually into the CC: field--even with umlaut.
Adresses are Base64 encoded, and as far as I can see, using this site: http://coderstoolbox.net/string/ , many of them are incorrect. What mail client are you using, which application is producing these addresses?
I tried a similar umlaut-address to one of my own at Google, it comes in as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6=EB=E4
I tried a similar umlaut-address to one of my own at Google, it comes in as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6=EB=E4
It's not that the addresses are incorrect, but they are not in RFC822 format as far as I can tell.
ASKER
Thanks for the replies..
We are typing the emails in correctly, and the email addresses themselves don't have a ü in them, but it is the names that are being picked up from various peoples address books that seem to be causing problems, for example one of the guys email address is : Dührkop Gerhard <duehrkop@companyname.de> - this is how it is being set in the cc field, the result in Outlook at the recipients end appears as : Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=FChrkop_G
We are typing the emails in correctly, and the email addresses themselves don't have a ü in them, but it is the names that are being picked up from various peoples address books that seem to be causing problems, for example one of the guys email address is : Dührkop Gerhard <duehrkop@companyname.de> - this is how it is being set in the cc field, the result in Outlook at the recipients end appears as : Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=FChrkop_G
ASKER
Further to the above, the attachment shows how our Domino server is currently configured for outbound mail
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> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?RMO8aH
> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=FChrkop
Please explain, is it UTF-8 or ISO 8859-1 ?
Can you check in Notes what exact mail addresses were used? See the addresses in the Document Properties.
> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=FChrkop
Please explain, is it UTF-8 or ISO 8859-1 ?
Can you check in Notes what exact mail addresses were used? See the addresses in the Document Properties.
Usually the Header data is not converted i.e. if the subject of an email is in a foreign non ASCII characters, it will appear with funny characters unless a specific choice was made by the recipient where that encoding map is set in their email client, when they reply to all, do the messages get through or does the now sender receive bounce back NDR for those ?UTF-8? or ?ISO-8859-1? encoded recipients?
ASKER
I have attached another screenshot. The top part is what someone at my organisation has emailed, the bottom part is how it appears at the recipients end.
I believe we are getting both UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1 errors, the last to be received was a UTF-8 error.
When the recipient tries to reply to the corrupt address it will not send.
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I believe we are getting both UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1 errors, the last to be received was a UTF-8 error.
When the recipient tries to reply to the corrupt address it will not send.
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The issue is not the label in the Sending client interface, but the actual content of the data.
i.e.
Cc: Firstname lastname; firstname lastname;
Does not shed light on what the email address is or how it is entered in the local address book.
note the Name of the first Cc recipient has the german U i think it is called umlaut.
It can be represented by a HIGH ascii in ISO-8859-1 it is represented as =FC
ASCII character 252.
To convert the =xy to the ascii code, x*16+y where y can be from 0-F (0-15)
i.e.
Cc: Firstname lastname; firstname lastname;
Does not shed light on what the email address is or how it is entered in the local address book.
note the Name of the first Cc recipient has the german U i think it is called umlaut.
It can be represented by a HIGH ascii in ISO-8859-1 it is represented as =FC
ASCII character 252.
To convert the =xy to the ascii code, x*16+y where y can be from 0-F (0-15)
Oh, there are some client that perform the translation/conversion of UTF or ISO for display, there are others, that only do it when replied and there are still others that do not make any changes.
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ASKER
I have set the field RFC822 phrase handling to use CN as sjef bosman recommended, I will report back with my findings
Eh? Why do you intend to accept your own answer?
ASKER
sorry, must have pressed the wrong button
Aaaah! Thanks!! :-))