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tanjeff

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Registered: 2007-03-15

Posts: 15

[SOLVED] claws-mail: how to configure outgoing encoding?

Is it possible to configure claws-mail in such a way that outgoing emails are encoded with UTF-8? At the moment, they are encoded with ISO-8859-1. I can change the encoding in the compose window, but I need to configure it permanently. It seems that there is no hidden option, and I found nothing in the preferences dialogues.

My locales are configured as follows:
arch $ locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL=
arch $

Last edited by tanjeff (2007-11-21 15:59:25)

lloeki

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 456

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Re: [SOLVED] claws-mail: how to configure outgoing encoding?

configuration->preferences->mail handling->sending->outgoing+transfer encoding

it is usually better to use autodetect, as it will select the most minimal encoding that can enclose characters you use. this setting is not related in any way to your system settings, it's only related to the mail container.

e.g it'll use US-ASCII if you don't use accents. 8859-1 if you use accents and umlauts, 8859-15 if you use euro sign, and UTF8 if you pop in some greek in there. that's to allow for people without utf8 to read your mail right.

Last edited by lloeki (2007-11-19 16:04:52)

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tanjeff

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Registered: 2007-03-15

Posts: 15

Re: [SOLVED] claws-mail: how to configure outgoing encoding?

Thanks much. I must have been blind...

I noticed that the outgoing mails were encoded with ISO-8859-1, but a friend of mine uses thunderbird, which didn't interpret the characters correctly. The mail itself is intact, so claws-mail works perfectly. It is a bug in Thunderbird, but well, it propably will work better if I simply encode my mails in UTF-8 :-/ Well, most Mail-clients can handle UTF-8 correctly.

Thanks again. Tanjeff