LNET sendmail UTF8
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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vexal · 2011-09-12 13:38

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 QuoteTest éaà@rzùkt&gùlv* i will receive
QuoteTest 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 ?

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felipemdc · 2011-09-12 13:58

What about some sample code?

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vexal · 2011-09-12 14:19

Of course :

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

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Arbee · 2011-09-12 14:19

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.

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vexal · 2011-09-12 14:24

I just test this under windows and i have no problem.
Even if i try Code: [Select]SMTPClient.SendMail('test1@example.com',
'test2@example.com', 'test', Utf8ToAnsi('Test éaà@rzùkt&gùlv*')); i
have a problem under linux.

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Arbee · 2011-09-12 14:29

utf8toSys does not work either?

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vexal · 2011-09-12 14:33

nope, the same

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Arbee · 2011-09-12 14:58

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)

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vexal · 2011-09-12 15:02

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.

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Arbee · 2011-09-12 15:26

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.

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vexal · 2011-09-12 15:29

Quote from: Arbee on September 12, 2011, 05:26:15 pmI guess it all
boils down to not sending the email as UTF8

I am afraid you are rigth. Thank you anyway !

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Almindor · 2011-09-13 16:04

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.

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vexal · 2011-09-13 16:37

Ok, Thank you ! 
I will look at this tomorow

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vexal · 2011-09-14 09:45

Hi, you were rigth !

I modified line 772 in lsmtp like this and it works :
Code: [Select]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 ?