GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 530895
wrong parsing of the sender encoding in IMAP folders
Last modified: 2012-06-23 14:17:37 UTC
I set up evolution to use gmail's imap (following this guide: http://weakish.int.eu.org/blog/2008/01/configure-evolution-for-gmail.xhtml) My "sender name" was set to "Jean-François Fortin Tam". Now, when that is the case, messages that I send will show up in evolution as coming from "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Fortin_Tam_". The subject is fine, even if I put accents in it. Basically, as soon as I put accents in my sender name, it messes up. What is more interesting is that this is only seen in the "message list" view, if you actually click the message, you can see the sender name properly encoded at the top: "Jean-François Fortin Tam" This happens only in evolution, and only in the gmail sent folder. 1) If I take a look at the copy stored in evolution's global "sent" (not imap) folder, I see no problems with accents at all. 2) If I take a look in gmail's web interface, no problem either 3) I do see garbled sender names in the imap inbox/sent folder But then, there is also another issue that seems slightly different. This time I looked in the inbox and saw "=?ISO-8859-1?Q? St=E9phane_Raimbault _" appear in both the message list and inside the message view pane. I am guessing that the reason it appears in both is because it has spaces, and that is bug #442934. Mine is different as it does not have spaces. So there, hope it helps. Please do ask for any clarifications you may need.
Created attachment 110227 [details] screenshot demonstrating the problem
Created attachment 110228 [details] screenshot of my spam folder with chinese encoding of course being able to properly decode spam is not really high priority, but I thought it was relevant to this issue ;)
This is a google bug.
There were several reports about this but I think it has been fixed by Google in the meantime - nekohayo, is this still a problem in 3.4.2 or 3.2.3?
Indeed, this is not a problem anymore (tested with 3.4.2). \o/