from field encoding

Aki Tuomi
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:43:51 -0000

> On 23/06/2020 11:31 Jan Jurko <jan at jurko.cz> wrote:
>
>
> Good day.
> I have a dovecot 2.3.4.1 on debian 10 as an imap server. I found there are
emails where the header field From has no encoding even if there is a name with
special characters like ?lut? K??. The header looks like:
>
> From: "?lut? K??" <zluty.kun at domain.tld>
>
> In this case the email client - roundcube, outlook etc. will show the From
with wrong characters. This behaviour is typical only for dovecot, not for
courier-imap - it was installed before dovecot with no problems.
>
> If there is corretly encoded From filed, the client shows the From
correctly.
>
> Is there a way to set up the dovecot to show the field correctly even
without encoding stuff? Some default/fallback settings?
>
> Thank you very much for your help
>
> Jan Jurko

Is it possible to get a sample mail corpus?

Aki