Closed Bug 1440264 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Problem with accent with Yahoo Mail account

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

52 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1435903

People

(Reporter: montagnersylvain, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180206200532

Steps to reproduce:

Send a mail from ThunderBird, with my Yahoo account


Actual results:

Accent (é, è, à, ...) are translated into ?? in my recipient box


Expected results:

Accent should be preserved
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
Thank you very much ! :)
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