Re: UTF-8 error email from freeuk (Clara)

Matthias Andree <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 04.11.21 um 17:33 schrieb Brian D:
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> This can happen, for instance, on server-side Courier-IMAPd trying to
> strictly implement RFC-6855 and 6856,

I don't know of any other causes of these particular "surrogate messages", but
maybe there are.

In any case, I've read 6856 a few times now, and I don't see that getmail
should need to do anything other than issue the UTF8 command, which the patch
does, but you're saying you still get these error surrogates and not the
original messages.

So it looks like getmail is doing the right thing, but the server is broken?
Weird.  But possible, I guess; it may not be well-tested, since this RFC isn't
universally implemented.

At this point, I think you need to contact the mail server administrator.  You
have a POP client which is apparently complying with rfc6856, but a server
which is still returning the error surrogate messages instead of the message
contents.

Charles
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