[imp] Odd symbols instead of mail message

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Tue Jan 24 01:43:23 UTC 2012


Quoting Mat Cantin <mat at cantinbrothers.ca>:

> Greetings,
>
> Recently, some messages that are being displayed in Horde come up  
> blank with the following odd symbols: ÿþ
>
> If for some reason you can't see it, it's a "y" with two dots and  
> "bp" character.
>
> Seems to me like it's a character encoding problem with php, but I'm  
> really not sure.

Most likely, there is a mismatch between what is being reported as the  
character set and what the actual text data is.  In other words: the  
message is broken.

> This started happening recently only occasionally from one person,  
> but now I'm starting to see it more often from multiple people. The  
> people sending the messages are all using Outlook 2003.
>
> This only happens with IMP. I have Roundcube on the same server and  
> it doesn't have any problems displaying the messages.

Completely irrelevant.

michael

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