hotmail and french characters problem

[nicolas]

i have a strange problem when sending mail to certain hotmail user accounts.
some of my users say that when they send emails to hotmail users, the french accentuated characters does not render properly.
it's making me crazy. i am not able to reproduce the problem myself.

here is what it look like in hotmail :
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Message transféré
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Anyone heard of that kind of problem already ?
Any clue ?

Zimbra version :
Release 4.5.5_GA_838.RHEL4_64_20070518075936 CentOS4_64 FOSS edition

[jholder]

weird!

Can you file a bug on this? We're gonna need you to do a "Show Original" and add it as an attachment.

Also, make sure you cc me on that bug

Thanks
john

[nicolas]

Originally Posted by jholder

weird!

Can you file a bug on this? We're gonna need you to do a "Show Original" and add it as an attachment.

Also, make sure you cc me on that bug

Thanks
john

the problem is that the email is wrong on the hotmail side.
i can show you this :

Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:30:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: =?utf-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane_Bertini?= <sbertini@be-st.ca>
To: carole bertini <carolebertini@yahoo.ca>
Message-ID: <302398156.4151184635838517.JavaMail.root@mail.b e-st.ca>
In-Reply-To: <992179.15196.qm@web37404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9f.:_hola?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_Part_184_366215894.1184635838515"
X-Originating-IP: [127.0.0.1]

------=_Part_184_366215894.1184635838515
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Content pour toi=20

wich result in hotmail on a certain account to have this in the subject : Réf.:

where do i file the bug ?

[nicolas]

sorry it is in yahoo on this one...
the problem is just bigger now...

[jholder]

Are you sure it's a hotmail problem?

Can you send from one hotmail to let's say a GMail account, and does it work? If it does, it's us.

Bugzilla Main Page

[nicolas]

Originally Posted by jholder

Are you sure it's a hotmail problem?

Can you send from one hotmail to let's say a GMail account, and does it work? If it does, it's us.

Bugzilla Main Page

the problem only happen when we are sending from zimbra.
receiving from yahoo or hotmail is ok.
internal zimbra is ok.
the problem is sending from zimbra to hotmail (or yahoo now !).

???

[jholder]

Yeah, you'd better file a bug and have our dev/qa people take a look at it.

Bugzilla Main Page

[nicolas]

just for everyone knowledge : it seems this problem was due to the apache charset configuration. I was using redirection to host another web server on the same server and i found that the charset setting in the first web server was influencing zimbra.

[ahmad600]

I had the same problem with hotmail , I used utf8 encoding and it worked out ok .