german umlauts with e-mail after installing new system

[Alexander Apprich]

Goetz,

Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed a new e-mail-server using taolinux 4 (RHEL4) and 
> got some problems with german umlauts.
> 
> That I tested was sending an e-mail from our webmailsystem twig and an 
> other from my thunderbird client.
> 
> I got two diffrent results:
> 
> sending from twig lets the subject (ö, ä, ü) unchanged, the mailtext is 
> unreadebel.
> 
> sending from thunderbird changes the subject to strange symbols, the 
> mail text is fine.
> 
> I use sendmail.
> 
> Where can I look, for what could be wrong?

try in a teminal

    export LANG=de_DE

then start your mailer and try it again. I had some strange experience
w/ the default de_DE.UTF8 and german umlaute...

If this fixes your problem, you can change the default LANG in

    /etc/sysconfig/118n

> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
> Götz Reinicke

Alex