is this a bug ?

[katib]

There was a bug report in 1.1.4 version
Acually, I am facing the same bug with SMF 2 beta 4 (see screenshoot bellow)

when sending emails form the forum
it happens that subject is using html entities and some of mail provider doesn't support that if the encoding is UTF-8

usually if the name of the forum uses non-english chars the subject will contain HTML entities which are not converted to represented chars

It might happen in SMF 2.0 Beta I didn't test it yet

[Jade Elizabeth]

Please refrain from starting multiple topics:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=267884
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=268339.0
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=268336

[katib]

Sorry for starting multiple topics 

Now,  I know that at least a memeber of SMF stuff ( you)  knows about my problem !!
I will wait patientlly for a help
Please note that a board with a bogus mail functions  looks like a space mission without telecommunication facilities !!!

[Jade Elizabeth]

Lol made me laugh.

I have no idea how to help you I'm afraid, I don't use utf-8 because of its problems!

[SleePy]

I know there is a bug report on this, I just can't seem to locate it

[katib]

Thank you Sleepy
Is it quite strange that this bug was here since SMF 1.1.4
does it mean that all SMF users with utf8 and non latin characters ( arabic, hebrew, urdu, thai, vietnameese...) are suffring the same problem !!?
by the way,there is a : "convert html entities to utf8"
what does this function do ?

[SleePy]

I believe it affected all those who are using utf-8 with non Latin characters in the subject.

[katib]

I believe it affected all those who are using utf-8 with non Latin characters in the subject.

Quite frustrating to hear that 
I am not a programmer, so I only wonder, why SMF deosnir simply send the subject the same way as the body, because users get the body message readable with normal characters ?

[katib]

Is there any good news 
My forum is sending garbage to users ( see screenshoot below)
Please notice that a forum with bogus email functions looks like a space mission with NO telecom facilities
It will be lost in the (cyber) space 

[SleePy]

Bug #2703: Emails may be sent incorrectly to email hosts who do not support html entities in subjects

[katib]

I found this solution here
http://www.usenet-forums.com/php-language/32399-unicode-entities-email-subject.html
But I dont understand any thing at program wiriting 
Can some one help me how to implement it ? please

The "Subject" field can be encoded as MIME header (see RFC 2045-2048).
For example, given the subject $subj encoded as a UTF-8 string,
a possible encoding might be

define("ENCODING", "UTF-8");

$header = "Subject: =?" . ENCODING . "?B?" . base64_encode($subj) . "?= ";

Note that the RFC 2047 sets a limit to the maximum lenght of the resulting
string. Beyond that limit the string must be splitted somewere. However,
the email clients I tested are able to accept a string of any length,
so this is a problem you may ignore as a first step of the implementation.

And note that this encoding has nothing to do with the Content-Type
field or the body of the message.

Obviously, your "Unicode entities" must be converted to regular UTF-8
characters before the Base64 encoding be applied.

[SleePy]

Hmm, interesting if that might work..

Since I guess you won't mind testing if it works or not.

Find:

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$headers = 'From: "' . $from_name . '" <' . (empty($modSettings['mail_from']) ? $webmaster_email : $modSettings['mail_from']) . '>' . $line_break;


Add After that:

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$headers = 'Subject: =?UTF-8?B?' . base64_encode($subject) . '?= ';

[katib]

thanks Sleepy
yes I dont mind testing
but in what file should I search this string ?!

[SleePy]

Sorry about that, Subs-Post.php where the sendmail function is for SMF

[katib]

Thanks Sleepy
But it didnot work
I still have garbage characters

After modification you suggested, my Subs-Post.php looks like this:

// Construct the mail headers...
 $headers = 'From: "' . $from_name . '" <' . (empty($modSettings['mail_from']) ? $webmaster_email : $modSettings['mail_from']) . '>' . $line_break;
$headers = 'Subject: =?UTF-8?B?' . base64_encode($subject) . '?= ';
 $headers .= $from !== null ? 'Reply-To: <' . $from . '>' . $line_break : '';
 $headers .= 'Return-Path: ' . (empty($modSettings['mail_from']) ? $webmaster_email : $modSettings['mail_from']) . $line_break;
 $headers .= 'Date: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' -0000' . $line_break;

[katib]

Any help please 
All email notifications sent by  forum  have weired characters in  subject field 

I wonder how Farsi , Hebrew, thai and russian boards deal with this annoying problem!!
doeas this mean that I am  the only forum owner how suffer this bug !!!?

I am using SMF2Beta4 arabic-utf8

[SleePy]

Can you pm or email me the raw source of the email? That is the one that contains all the headers about the email. Hopefully this helps.

[katib]

Ok
I sent you a PM
Please note that the bug affects only yahoo and hotmail webmail.
Gmail displays email subject in the normal way , no issue !!!

[SleePy]

I just remembered seeing this in the changelog.

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! Mails sent to Yahoo and Hotmail accounts no longer need special treatment. (Subs-Post.php) [Bug 1910]

Open Subs-Post.php
Find:

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if (preg_match('~@(yahoo|hotmail|att|comcast|bellsouth)\.[a-zA-Z\.]{2,6}$~i', $to_address) === 1)

Replace:

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if (preg_match('~@(att|comcast|bellsouth)\.[a-zA-Z\.]{2,6}$~i', $to_address) === 1)

There was one other line changed, but that was the comment and won't affect us

Hopefully that will fix this up

[katib]

Thank you very much Sleepy 
you are my hero !!!
those buggy email notfications was a terrible nightmare for me
Today I reeceived the first email notification with no wierd characters at subject 
Tomorrow, I will ask others members, for confirmation
And  I will post in the arabic section to let my fellow know about ythe fix
Thank yu ver much!