german umlauts with e-mail after installing new system

[Götz Reinicke]

Alexander,

Alexander Apprich schrieb:
> 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

This didn't solve the problem, I still get a mismatch off umlauts and 
strange characters... :-(

Regards

Götz

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