[imp] Unable to view / forward / send messages in certain charsets

[Ryan Flannery]

John,
do you notice any errors in your apache error_log file?
Also, what version of apache are you running?  Are you by chance
running apache chroot'ed?

-Ryan


On Jan 16, 2006, at 12:07 PM, John R MacMillan wrote:

> I'm having a problem with IMP 4.0.4 / Horde 3.0.9 running on FreeBSD
> 6.0 and charsets other than ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII or UTF-8.
>
> If I try to view such a message, I get a completely blank page. If I
> attemt to forward or compose such a message, when I hit Send Message,
> the window goes blank and the message is never sent.
>
> In both cases, the browser shows no page source at all.
>
> In no case does an error show up in the logs with the settings for  
> both
> PHP and Horde at E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE. If I enable E_NOTICE, I only see
> some notices about "Only variable references should be returned by
> reference" (I'm using PHP5), but I get those for messages that display
> normally as well.
>
> I don't think it's a browser problem; it happens across multiple
> browsers (Firefox, IE, Konqueror) on multiple OSes (Linux, Windows).
>
> According to test.php, I have iconv support, and I can use the
> command-line iconv to convert among charsets fine.
>
> I've looked at other "Blank Page" bugs / mailing list postings, but
> they seem to be unrelated (I may have missed some; there are a ton of
> them, but they mostly involve blank pages on login or for certain
> features, and my problem seems specific to messages with odd  
> charsets).
> I also found a Chorus bug listed about FreeBSD charsets that looked
> slightly promising (http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=984) but the
> workaround did not help.
>
> There's another weird twist I can't really explain: If I edit the
> mailbox manually to change the charset, I can view the message. If I
> then edit it _back_ to the original (and verify with diff that the
> whole mailbox is as it was), I can _still_ read the message. My only
> guess for that is that something gets cached when it works.
>
> Any suggestions, or debug I can turn on to help diagnose?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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