Asian characters in 10.0 (still)
Pretty please, does anyone out there have any idea how to fix this. Out of about 150 messages today, one--a recept from a commercial vendor--came up unreadable. I am really desperate now to fix it somehow, since my Eudora on XP has blown a fuse. TIA, doug
* Doug McGarrett
Pretty please, does anyone out there have any idea how to fix this. Out of about 150 messages today, one--a recept from a commercial vendor--came up unreadable. I am really desperate now to fix it somehow, since my Eudora on XP has blown a fuse.
Maybe you should offer a little more explanation, as we don't support XP (afaik) here ???? maybe make the post available. perhaps your charset is incorrect? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:20, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Pretty please, does anyone out there have any idea how to fix this. Out of about 150 messages today, one--a recept from a commercial vendor--came up unreadable. I am really desperate now to fix it somehow, since my Eudora on XP has blown a fuse.
No guarantees that this will fix things, but you could try in Kmail settings Appearance->Message Window->Fallback character encoding and choose a reasonable character set, e.g., Western European (iso-8850-1). HTH, Jim
On Monday September 11 2006 16:24, Jim Cunning wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 13:20, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Pretty please, does anyone out there have any idea how to fix this. Out of about 150 messages today, one--a recept from a commercial vendor--came up unreadable. I am really desperate now to fix it somehow, since my Eudora on XP has blown a fuse.
No guarantees that this will fix things, but you could try in Kmail settings
Appearance->Message Window->Fallback character encoding
and choose a reasonable character set, e.g., Western European (iso-8850-1).
HTH, Jim I see only 8859-1, but I have tried it. It will take a day or so to see if it works. Thanx.
--doug
On Monday 11 September 2006 16:47, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Monday September 11 2006 16:24, Jim Cunning wrote: [...]
No guarantees that this will fix things, but you could try in Kmail settings
Appearance->Message Window->Fallback character encoding
and choose a reasonable character set, e.g., Western European (iso-8850-1). Should be iso-8859-1. Typo, sorry. Jim
HTH, Jim
I see only 8859-1, but I have tried it. It will take a day or so to see if it works. Thanx.
--doug Good luck.
I get the same problem in evolution though the email is spam. Trying to open such causes evolution to hang in both 9.2 and 10.0. The solution I found is to delete it by selecting the email above and below it inclusively and delete. Then individually undelete the good mail and expunge. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
At 09:12 AM 9/13/2006 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I get the same problem in evolution though the email is spam. Trying to open such causes evolution to hang in both 9.2 and 10.0. The solution I found is to delete it by selecting the email above and below it inclusively and delete. Then individually undelete the good mail and expunge.
-- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
If it was all spam, I wouldn't care, but the message I received the other day was a receipt of order from a commercial firm. The four messages I received yesterday were headed Re: [SLE] so I don't think they were spam either. They don't hang KDE, they are just unrecoverable--that is, there is no way to convert them back to English. (At least that I know of--I have tried forwarding them to my XP machine, but they are still unreadable, as is printed copy to the LaserJet.) Probably unrelated, but I would expect whatever it was that hung up Eudora was some kind of spam, but there's no way to tell. Thanx to one of you kind people here at Linux, I now know how to fix Eudora if it happens again. You guys are great, even with Windows! --doug PS: Is CWSIV related to the fellow who is almost certainly going to be the Governor of New York?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-09-13 at 14:20 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
If it was all spam, I wouldn't care, but the message I received the other day was a receipt of order from a commercial firm. The four messages I received yesterday were headed Re: [SLE] so I don't think they were spam either. They don't hang KDE, they are just unrecoverable--that is, there is no way to convert them back to English. (At least that I know of--I have tried forwarding them to my XP machine, but they are still unreadable, as is printed copy to the LaserJet.)
It should be possible to read a mail folder with a different program, without forwarding. For example, you could try mozilla (aka thunderbird, seamonkey or whatever), that usually does a good job with extrange char emails. You just have to simlink the mbox folder to another (new) one where mozilla can see it. I published the details of this in the old unofficial suse faq. Something like this: Mail/mbox <--- normal mbox folder mozilla-mail/mbox --> simlink to the above. mozilla-mail/mbox.msf empty (will be the index) This would work provided that particular email isn't broken. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFCSuPtTMYHG2NR9URAiykAJ90YcjvWiH6Ch3Mdiwc7ZO1GTXFzgCgiYi/ toK3+x57vcUccVuX5ETHM5g= =weoU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 12:14 PM 9/14/2006 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2006-09-13 at 14:20 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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It should be possible to read a mail folder with a different program, without forwarding. For example, you could try mozilla (aka thunderbird, seamonkey or whatever), that usually does a good job with extrange char emails. You just have to simlink the mbox folder to another (new) one where mozilla can see it. I published the details of this in the old unofficial suse faq. Something like this:
Mail/mbox <--- normal mbox folder
mozilla-mail/mbox --> simlink to the above. mozilla-mail/mbox.msf empty (will be the index)
This would work provided that particular email isn't broken.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Well, in spite of fooling with Linux for years, I'm still a newbie at this. I have a version of thunderbird on Windows, and it looks like I could use it on Linux, instead of KMail, but I have no idea where it lives, or how to install it. I brought up Yast2, and put in the names Thunderbird (upper and lower case versions) and Seamonkey, but Yast had no clue. (I had CD1 in the drive.) In words of one syllable or less, how do I find and install Thunderbird? (I actually have Mozilla Firefox on the desktop.) Ref: 10.0. TIA--doug TIA--doug
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-09-15 at 21:11 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Well, in spite of fooling with Linux for years, I'm still a newbie at this. I have a version of thunderbird on Windows, and it looks like I could use it on Linux, instead of KMail, but I have no idea where it lives, or how to install it.
You can even convince it to use your mail folders in the windows fat partition, sharing the folders when you double boot.
I brought up Yast2, and put in the names Thunderbird (upper and lower case versions) and Seamonkey, but Yast had no clue. (I had CD1 in the drive.) In words of one syllable or less, how do I find and install Thunderbird? (I actually have Mozilla Firefox on the desktop.) Ref: 10.0.
The rpm in 10.1 is called "MozillaThunderbird", and yast should happily find it for you - unless it is not included in the CD version and you need an online repository. Some one using 10.0 might tell you more details. - -- Cheers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFC1aStTMYHG2NR9URApW3AJ4z0/Y/OAqQoxhjZ36SylY1kQpSZACfdr8p Rf9hFIqZf7yk6V1PizTGeD0= =D8md -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 14:20 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
If it was all spam, I wouldn't care, but the message I received the other day was a receipt of order from a commercial firm. The four messages I received yesterday were headed Re: [SLE] so I don't think they were spam either. They don't hang KDE, they are just unrecoverable--that is, there is no way to convert them back to English. (At least that I know of--I have tried forwarding them to my XP machine, but they are still unreadable, as is printed copy to the LaserJet.)
Probably unrelated, but I would expect whatever it was that hung up Eudora was some kind of spam, but there's no way to tell. Thanx to one of you kind people here at Linux, I now know how to fix Eudora if it happens again. You guys are great, even with Windows!
--doug
Actually that was an evolution fix but you might find it working on little Eudora. BTW why buy when Thunderbird is free.
PS: Is CWSIV related to the fellow who is almost certainly going to be the Governor of New York?
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