Hi all
Mailman 2.2.0 on cPanel
In the last few days, several messages (not all!) showed problems with their text encodings.
This means, messages containing non-standard characters, like ä, ö, ü, etc. do not arrive properly at the subscriber’s side. Instead of "ä", they show "=C3=A4", for example. And at the line end, a single "=". The headers usually contain
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
which should be correct.
When I look at the "raw source" of such messages, I see a block of base64-encoded text. I can copy this text block and insert it in a base64-"decoder", such as <https://www.base64decode.org/>, I see the same effect as in the mail program.
Yesterday, I answered to such a message. And my message arrived at the subscriber’s end as base64-encoded text, it was not decoded by the recipients’ mail program, although its header contained the same indications as above (utf-8, base64).
I checked with several mail programs; all of them just showed the base64-encoded block in the mail body.
Does anybody have a solution? Did cPanel change something on its Mailman-part? Did cPanel "update" Mailman in the last few days (our provider says that such updates are automatic and he doesn’t know if there was one)?
Most of the subscribers use Mail from Apple in various versions, but there are also some with Thunderbird, Postbox, GyazMail, Outlook (Mac), etc.
Please ask if you need more info - I’ll try to answer them.
Thank you Christian
-- Christian Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)