LNET sendmail UTF8

[vexal]

Hi,

When i am sending mail with accent (i'm french) with the sendmail method of lsmtp, i am receiving mail in wrong encoding.
For example, if i send

Test éaà@rzùkt&gùlv*

i will receive

Test éaà @rzùkt&gùlv*

.
I am under CentOs 6 Linux with Lazarus 0.9.30 and lnet 0.6.5
What did i need to do ?

[felipemdc]

What about some sample code?

[vexal]

Of course :

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SMTPClient.SendMail('test1@example.com', 'test2@example.com', 'test', 'Test éaà@rzùkt&gùlv*');


[Arbee]

The second piece of text I recognize as UTF-8 characters, displayed as if it is ASCII text, in which case you see the separate characters (bytes) which make up each UTF-8 character.  For instance the é character occupies two bytes when viewed separately as ASCII come out as é.

So it looks like your email is sent as UTF8 alright. 

[vexal]

I just test this under windows and i have no problem.
Even if i try

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SMTPClient.SendMail('test1@example.com', 'test2@example.com', 'test', Utf8ToAnsi('Test éaà@rzùkt&gùlv*')); i have a problem under linux.

[Arbee]

utf8toSys does not work either?

[vexal]

nope, the same 

[Arbee]

By the way ... what are you receiving the email with?   Is that a separate application and is that Unicode enabled? (I'm not a Linux expert as you may gather)

[vexal]

I am receiving email in Thunderbird under windows. It can display correctly utf8 messages, usually.
I tried with a webmail under linux but the same than in thunderbird : UT8 is not decoded.

[Arbee]

OK, you can't set the browser to show UTF8?  If not, I guess it all boils down to not sending the email as UTF8, if I understand you correctly.  If UTF8ToAnsi nor UTF8ToSys works, then I'm afraid I must hand this over to a Linux FPC-er.

[vexal]

I guess it all boils down to not sending the email as UTF8

I am afraid you are rigth. Thank you anyway !

[Almindor]

You need to ensure that the receiving application expects UTF-8. SMTP doesn't handle encoding itself, it just sends what's fed to it. But you should use mimetypes to specify that your e-mail is UTF-8. I'm a bit short on time atm. to look it up but it's all about the mimetype header in the mail body.

[vexal]

Ok, Thank you ! 
I will look at this tomorow

[vexal]

Hi, you were rigth !

I modified line 772 in lsmtp like this and it works :

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Data('Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' + CRLF + 'From: ' + From + CRLF + 'Subject: ' + Subject + CRLF + 'To: ' + FSL.CommaText + CRLF + CRLF + Msg);
But this is not very clean. i prefer to not modify the library.
Do you know how i can add the header without modifying the lib ?