[Evolution] Character encoding and expunge?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

Not Zed wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 21:17 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> 
>>Hi..

>>Mainly, evol. doesn't show every mail correctly regarding character
>>enconding.. Some mail looks like this..:
>>
>>                           Subject: 
>>Hva som skal st=?ISO-8859-1?B?5Q==?=
>>I mail som sendes u
>>
>>Why isn't this shown like this ??:
>>
>>Subject: Hva som skal stå I mail som sendes u
>>
>>
>>This works like charm with both thunderbird and also kmail.
>>
> This is a broken encoding.  I guess the must have workarounds.  rfc2047 
> is _very explicit_ about the fact you must separate encoded words with 
> linear whitespace being a MUST implementation detail.
> 
> File a bug against the mailers who are sending the mail.
> 
> Although evolution might have another workaround for another set of 
> broken emailers out there, we're in no rush to do it, since its their 
> issue, not ours.  And nobody's submitted a patch.
> 

Ok, I know that the error probably wasn't evolution's fault but I was 
just thinking that evol. should have a workaround for this since 
"everyone" else has it...

>>
>>
>>And also, when using IMAP, why isn't the seen flag marked when I have
>>read the email? I have to eg. go to another folder en back again to make
>>sure the mail is marked as read..
>>
> Do you mean on the server?  It isn't synced till you expunge or change 
> folders.
> 

Yes, on the server... I am reading mail from several different computers 
and it's just a bit annoying that the mail I have already read on one 
computer is still marked as new when I read mail from another computer...


Another thing, I use a couple of different email identities. The only 
way to have two identities in evol. is to make an extra empty account?


BTJ