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Beta [7348] EAS encoding issue for everything that is not UTF-8
Problem reported by Sébastien Riccio - 2/15/2020 at 11:18 AM
Resolved
In previous BETA build, there was in the known issue list, this entry:
- Some characters may not be properly encoded in EAS. 

But on latest build (7348 at the time I'm writing this)  it was removed from known issues. As I thought this might be related to the issue we're having, but I've did some testing again with the latest build and the issues still exists.

Issue is:
Received mails encoded with other charset thant UTF-8 have encoding issue (at least for accents) when they are read from EAS (tested on outlook pc and from mobile devices (iPhone, Android using their built-in mail app) accents). They decode fine with IMAP/EWS and in webmail.

Here is the original mail (encoded in iso-8859-1)




Here are an example screenshot of results: (this is from outlook 2019 on pc)



This is an issue users are complaining about since october 2019. We have opened a ticket about it (XXX-253E0B58-XXXX) and I already created a community thread (december 2019) that never got attention or at least an answer.

Can this issue be reviewed and fixed, at least in the post-MAPI beta releases ?

Thanks,
Sébastien




Sébastien Riccio
System & Network Admin

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Sébastien Riccio Replied
[Ugly topic bump to maybe have some devs/team attention]
Sébastien Riccio System & Network Admin https://swisscenter.com
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Sébastien Riccio Replied
[This topic needs some love]
Sébastien Riccio System & Network Admin https://swisscenter.com
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Gabriele Maoret - SERSIS Replied
Same here
Gabriele Maoret - Head of SysAdmins at SERSIS Currently manages 6 SmarterMail installations (1 in the cloud for SERSIS which provides services to a few hundred third-party email domains + 5 on-premise for customers who prefer to have their mail server in-house)
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Sébastien and Gabriele, are you by chance looking at older EMLs when this is happening for you?  I have just retested sending multiple accented characters via ISO-8859-1 and then syncing via EAS to iOS, Android, and Windows Mail with no issues. You can see from the screenshots that the message was received using iso-8859-1 encoding.  Would you be able to send me a copy of the EML for any messages that are displaying incorrectly?  I should be able to troubleshoot it further with that.


iOS (default mail app):

Android (Samsung default mail app):

Windows Mail:
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Sébastien Riccio Replied
Hi Robert,

Can you PM me an e-mail address you're checking with EAS please ?

Thanks
Sébastien Riccio System & Network Admin https://swisscenter.com
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Andrea Free Replied
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Hi everyone,

The fix for this issue is being released in the next BETA Build of SmarterMail. Please stay tuned! 
Andrea Free SmarterTools Inc. 877-357-6278 www.smartertools.com
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Sébastien Riccio Replied
Hello all,

I have re-tested this issue and can confirm that this is fixed in build 7384. Thanks !

Kind regards
Sébastien Riccio System & Network Admin https://swisscenter.com

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