[Phpgroupware-tracker] [bugs #8387] special language characters in email headers and imap folders

[Chris Weiss]

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the email app is a snapshot of anglemail.org

I've forwarded the bug.

Angles doesn't know about the probuisness Folders app.  I don't have any email 
related icons in the folders at all and email "works for me" since I only use 
US chars.  I also don't see where I can configure what shows in Folders.  Could 
be a seperate bug in the folders app.






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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8387>
Project: phpGroupWare
Submitted by: Dr. Christian Böttger
On: Wed 03/31/04 at 10:57

Category:  email
Item Group:  0.9.16.000 release
Severity:  7 - Major
Priority:  7 - High
Resolution:  None
Assigned to:  mkaemmerer
Status:  Open
Component Version:  CVS
Platform Version:  GNU/Linux - SuSE
Reproducibility:  Every Time


Summary:  special language characters in email headers and imap folders

Original Submission:  handling of non-ASCII characters in email seems to be 
severely broken.

1) if the Account name contains special characters, the From: header seems to 
be formatted in a wrong way. Example:
Account name: Christian Böttger

From: "Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=C3=B6ttger?=" <address@hidden>

This is displayed correctly in Thunderbird and Mozilla, but is broken in e.g. 
phpGW/email itself, Outlook, KMail and Evolution. Outlook e.g. displays it as 
Christian Böttger address@hidden

I'm not an encoding guru, but there must be something wrong in phpGW/email...

b) If e.g. an Exchnage 5.5 server is used as IMAP server (e.g. for migration 
purposes) and the folder names contain  language specific characters or stuff 
like | (which is allowed and common in Exchange), the select boxes for "select 
a folder" or "move to folder" dont't work. Either there is nothing shown at 
all, or there is just one selction, e.g. "(24)", which seems to be the no. of 
one of the folders.

Even worse:
after viewing any email or deleting one or writing a new one, the following 
error shows up (3 times in the main window and 3 times on top of the screen):

From: Parse error: parse error, expecting `']'' in 
/srv/www/htdocs/pbgroupware/email/inc/class.mail_msg_wrappers.inc.php(5436) : 
eval()'d code on line 1

More strangely:
As soon as this error appears, the select boxes all of a sudden show all IMAP 
folders!
But: all special characters are preceeded by a non-printable character shown as 
an empty square.

And: after the next refresh (which is done periodically by the email app), the 
error goes away, and the select boxes are empty again.

This seems to be a hell of a mess in the email app code.

BTW: when using the folders module (with the pb template), no IMAP folders are 
shown there. Just one email-icon without a name which links to the inbox.



Follow-up Comments
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Date: Tue 04/20/04 at 15:17         By: cw
the email app is a snapshot of anglemail.org

I've forwarded the bug.

Angles doesn't know about the probuisness Folders app.  I don't have any email 
related icons in the folders at all and email "works for me" since I only use 
US chars.  I also don't see where I can configure what shows in Folders.  Could 
be a seperate bug in the folders app.




CC List
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CC Address                          | Comment
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angles                              | Could you have a look as well please? 
Thanks!
angles --AT-- aminvestments --DOT-- com | Could you have a look please?
mkaemmerer --AT-- probusiness --DOT-- de | Please have a look!









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