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waxby
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Posted: 23 September 2005 at 4:39pm \| IP Logged

Hi !
I'm very pleased with Mailbee POP3 and SMTP that I have used to build my support system.

Now I can not figure out how to manage e-mail with different codepages.

I have a pop3.asp that receives and stores all bodytext into a database, when I show a message from the database, I just write
response.write rs("body") without any tricks.

When I started to get mail in greek I tested to set the pop3 codepage property to 1253, and english, swedish and greek worked ok until today. I received a greek mail, that was not understandable at all... Found that for example greek can have 2 different codepages...

Now I wounder how to make my pop3 to work for all different kinds of codepages, since I do not know the codepage before I process the email.

Thanks in advance

Best regards
Micael Wäxby

Alex
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Posted: 23 September 2005 at 5:05pm \| IP Logged

You may consider using UTF-8 codepage. That is, you will be able to display mails composed with different charsets.

You can tell MailBee to convert everything in UTF-8 using the code like below:

Code:

POP3.CodepageMode=0

POP3.Codepage=65001

' Now you can receive mail..

Set Msg = POP3.RetrieveSingleMessage(1)

Message bodies and headers will be UTF-8 encoded.

Later, when displaying the message on ASP page, you should set
<% Response.Charset="utf-8" %>
at the top of the page. This will set HTTP header which tells browser that the content is UTF-8.

However, if the mail is HTML, it could also have charset specified in META tag. You should remove it or replace with utf-8 (for example, using regular expressions) because otherwise the browser would use META tag setting despite Response.Charset is set.

Example of META tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Note: recently, there were important enhancements to UTF-8 support in MailBee. Please download and install the latest version of MailBee.dll in order to have complete UTF-8 functionality:
http://www.afterlogic.com/updates/mailbee.zip

Regards,
Alex

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