Closed Bug 1439648 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Using Thunderbird since 1990's. Now all emails I send arrive with ?????? question marks added to text. Just started today. Please help. Two separate PC's with Tbird are doing this.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Version:
58 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1435903

People

(Reporter: W5UQ, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180118215408

Steps to reproduce:

when I send emails(Thunderbird) there are question marks added inside my text.  Many at a time.  

EG:...  Now is the time.?????????For all good men.????????????? To come to the aid.?????????


and so on.  I have found that TWO of my PC's have the same problem.  One has 52.6.0 (32bit) Thunderbird and the other one has 58.0.2 (64bit).   Please help. It just started today. 
Bob  W5UQ@att.NET


Actual results:

Question marks are added to all my sent emails. 


Expected results:

no question marks ADDED.
Group: core-security
Product: Core → Thunderbird
This is a current problem with all e-mail services provided by AT&T, Yahoo, BellSouth, etc.
Further reading:
https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Sending/Yahoo-SMTP-server-advertising-8bit-capability-incorrectly-and/m-p/460316

Workaround: Set preference mail.strictly_mime to true.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Note: Multiple spaces get converted to non-breaking spaces and they get transmitted as 8bit characters which don't get transmitted properly.
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