Re: POP3 UTF-8 support

Kopornoky Tamás <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:18:27 +0200
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Hello guys,

Thanks for the updates. This is a live system so I can patch and test it in
the weekend, I'll come back with the findings.

Regards,
/Tamás

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont:
2021. aug. 5., Cs, 22:32):

> 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.
>
> Just for the heck of it, try the attached patch against your local copy of
> getmail.  It just onconditionally sends that UTF8 command from RFC6856
> after
> logging in.  It'll probably cause getmail to throw an exception later - I'm
> guessing a UnicodeDecodeError, probably - but it's worth a shot.
>
> Please report what happens.  If it looks like a straightforward fix I might
> add this as a proper feature.
>
> Charles
>
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