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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: New KMail issues
From:       William Denniss <lists () omegadelta ! net>
Date:       2003-05-30 2:48:04
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On Friday 30 May 2003 08:40, you wrote:
> First of all: This mailing-list is no support forum, it's a development
> forum. If you have questions about the usage of KMail then please send
> your questions to one of the KDE user lists (kde@kde.org or, if you
> think your question is Linux specific, kde-linux@kde.org). If you want
> to report a bug then do this via bugs.kde.org as everyone else. Thanks
> in advance for following my suggestions the next time.

Ingo,

Thank you for replying anyway, I realised this once the bug reports started
coming in.  I apologise and won't do it again past this thread.

> On Thursday 29 May 2003 04:44, William Denniss wrote:
> > I have been using KMail since Red Hat 7, and I have had no problems
> > until I upgraded to KMail 1.4.3 (Using KDE 3.0.3-8.3 Red Hat).  I
> > don't know why, but the charcaters " " are appended to almost every
> > line in the emails I sent.
>
> That's due to the so-called quoted-printable encoding (  stands for a
> space). No decent email client will have problems with this.

I guessed this was the case, pity not everyone uses KMail.  From what was said
to me, outlook was having no problems displaying the messages, just replying
to them with the > characters.  It's a pain in the arse, but several people I
know do use Outlook.

>
> > These don't show up in KMail, nor Outlook for people I email but they
> > do have a few problems:  Some mailling list programs don't remove the
> > characters and my emails get resent with those characters visible.
>
> Those mailing list programs are broken. The list administrators might
> want to update to a newer version of the mailing list programs. If no
> newer version exists then they should report this bug to the developers
> of the mailing list programs. Every mailing list program should know
> how to deal with quoted-printable.

fair enough, they are old versions I believe

> > Likewise for the archives of many mailing lists.
>
> Well, the programs those archives use are obviously also too dumb if
> they can't correctly handle quoted-printable encoding.
>
> > And people who I
> > know that use Outlook when they click reply to my email, they can't
> > insert the >'s that they usually could (ie. before I upgraded my
> > kmail version).
>
> I don't understand what the problem is. Why can't they insert the >'s?

they are lazy - if outlook doesn't do it for them they give up.

> > Does anyone know of a simple fix for this problem?  Should I just try
> > and downgrade KMail? (I'd prefer not to have to do that).
>
> If quoted-printable encoding is a problem for you then change the
> Message property setting (in the configuration dialog in
> Network->Sending) to "Allow 8-bit".

Ok, I'll try this work around until outlook gets it's act together.

Again, thanks Ingo for your assistance.

Regards,

Will.

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William Denniss - will@: http://www.omegadelta.net

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