[pskmail] Re: Problem sending national characters in e-mails from pskmail 1.5.x
- From: "Rein Couperus" <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:25:37 +0100 (CET)
The outgoing mail in pskmail is in standard mbox format, and it can be used in
mbox mail clients...
Rein PA0R
>Il 04/02/2012 23:58, Pär Crusefalk ha scritto:
>> To be honest I have focused on getting the swedish characters working.
>> I don't know if that is the issue here as you said it worked on receive
>> and that is where I have put the conversion. On transmit the problem is
>> probably somewhat bigger as the message is MIME coded only if there is
>> an attachment. When this project started we were using somewhat slower
>> modes only (PSK63) and anything but the core message had to be removed
>> in order to save bandwidth. That meant messages were transferred as raw
>> text only, we could then avoid all the MIME header spam and decrease the
>> message size. That's still where we are today, messages do not have
>> complete MIME headers and non ascii characters is a problem.
>>
>> Doing complete MIME encoding will increase the message size, for the
>> common small message that could be even a 50% increase. I'll look into
>> what can be done, increasing the message size is not something I like
>> doing.
>>
>
>Some ideas on mail problem with PSKmail.
>
>Now there is a asymmetry for mail in PSKmail.
>Mail received are true mail messages and you can save it "as is" and use
>in other mail client (Evolution, Thunderbird, Outlook ?).
>Mail sent are in a special format and you need to compose in jpskmail or
>in a mail client and translate (see my FAQ in wiki, for Linux only).
>
>This asymmetry require a mail client in jpskmail, with address book,
>template (still missing), etc.
>If we use a standard format for any mail, sent or received, we can use
>any mail client for compose or read, for attach save and for template.
>Every mail client in Windows, Linux and (I suppose) in Mac OSX is able
>to define different account for mail.
>
>We can put in jpskmail client a simple SMTP server able to receive
>messages from mail client and put them in Outbox for PSKmail sending.
>Received messages go to Inbox without any separation of attach.
>
>For the question on size increasing using MIME encoding, only small
>messages have a 50% increase. But small messages take small time to send
>in compressed form.
>
>Regards
>Franco Spinelli
>IW2DHW
>
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