Email subject encoding problem (solved but...)

[Jakub Czuchnowski]

Hi,

It occured to me today that the mail subject's encoding is platform
dependent (better late than never).
The problem appeared when I deployed my app on Linux server. On
Windows I got email message with header:
Subject: =?Cp1250?Q?=AF=B9danie_ponownego_ustawienia_has=B3a?=

but on Linux it was:
Subject: =?ANSI_X3.4-1968?Q?=3F=3Fdanie_ponownego_ustawienia_has=3Fa?=

and since there were Polish letters in there, I got ?? symbols instead
of the letters.
Obviously the solution was to add -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 to the web
server startup. But I was wondering, shouldn't Lift provide some
default? Maybe with mail.mime.charset system property?

Jakub

[Kajo Marton]

Do you use Lift's Mailer?

if yes, try this:

Mailer.sendMail(From(from), Subject(MimeUtility.encodeText(subject,"utf-8",null)), To(user.email.is), XHTMLMailBodyType(bodyHtml) )

with this you can set subject charset.

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Kajo Marton

Bratislava, Slovakia

Dňa štvrtok, 15. marca 2012 18:35:28 UTC+1 Jakub Czuchnowski napísal(-a):

[Jakub Czuchnowski]

Thanks. Yes, I'm using Mailer. Good to know about this solution,
although I think I'll stay with my -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 solution at
this point.

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Jakub

2012/3/15 Kajo Marton <kajo....@gmail.com>:

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> Stuck? Help us help you:
> https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/Posting_example_code

[David Pollak]

This issue just came up in the context of HTTP headers.  Please open a ticket at http://ticket.liftweb.net and I'll make sure the characters for Mailer are UTF-8 encoded.

Jakub

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[Jakub Czuchnowski]

Created Issue #1242
Thanks.

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Jakub

[David Pollak]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Jakub Czuchnowski <jakub.cz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Created Issue #1242
Thanks.

Thank you!

[Lukasz Kuczera]

You can fix that by encoding text explicitly. 

object Mailer extends net.liftweb.util.Mailer {

  override def sendMail(from: From, subject: Subject, rest: MailTypes*) {

    val subj = MimeUtility.encodeText(subject.subject, "utf-8", "Q")

    super.sendMail(from, Subject(subj), rest:_*)

  }

}

I can work on fixing that ticket.

[David Pollak]

Awesome

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[Lukasz Kuczera]

I can't see issue #1242 am I missing something ?

On Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:35:28 PM UTC+1, Jakub Czuchnowski wrote:

[Lukasz Kuczera]

Gosh we moved to github :]