Re: POP3 UTF-8 support

Kopornoky Tamás <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm using getmail to download mail via pop3 to an ubuntu box. I usually get
> mail daemon errors like this:
> ----------
> This E-mail message was determined to be Unicode-formatted
> but your E-mail reader does not support Unicode E-mail.
> 
> Please use an E-mail reader that supports POP3 with UTF-8
> (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6856.html).
> ----------
> 
> After reading that RFC I was wondering if getmail supports UTF8 POP3
> extension?
> I think it doesn't because otherwise the message would get through.

getmail supports Unicode and UTF-8 just fine, and always has.  The server
you're connecting to is refusing to serve it to getmail, for unknown reasons.  

If I had to guess, I would say it seems to expect the client to issue the
"UTF8" command from RFC6856, which is not an accepted standard.

The server is broken.  Report the problem to the postmaster of the server.  Do
you happen to know if it's a "Plesk" system?

Charles
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