Encoding issues

[Lewiscowles1986]

I have an email bodyText that is literally =..j or 3d ac 8f 6a. I Have no idea why, surely an encoding issue would return more bytes?

[jakenoble]

Same +1

[Lewiscowles1986]

I haven't spent the greatest amount of time on this @jakenoble but I'm quite sure some of the choices of this lib and the encoder make it unusable.

Can I ask who the email account is with in-case it is a provider issue? Mine is for an old shared hosting account with Dreamhost. I Know something is wrong with their setup as it tells me the mailbox is > 22MB but doesn't get more specific than that (so far my download / backup is 11GB)

[jakenoble]

I found that running the contents through quoted_printable_decode() fixed the issues I was having. E.g.

$content = quoted_printable_decode($attachment->getContent());

[Lewiscowles1986]

I'll give it a try, it cannot help, thank you! 😉

[eualexey]

Does any body know how it's possible to decode the following:

["name":"Ddeboer\Imap\Mailbox":private]=>
string(35) "[Gmail]/&BBIE-0&BA-6&BA-=&BA->&BA-5"

&BBIE-0&BA-6&BA-=&BA->&BA-5 it's folder name in Russian, but I have not clue how to decode it, I've tried online decoders but no result.
Alse Jakenoble's way didn't help.
Thank you!

[Slamdunk]

Hi @Lewiscowles1986 , I found encoding issues too, we would appreciate a lot if you can provide a full test case to insert in our test suite: may you help us?

[Lewiscowles1986]

I've actually stopped using the library some months ago, marked as do not use which means the working copy would be deleted sorry 🤷‍♂️

[Slamdunk]

Perhaps you're using another library that doesn't face this issue; if so, I would appreciate a reference so we can learn better ways to handle encodings.

[Lewiscowles1986]

We've actually jumped to using Thunderbird source and been deriving a solution using Mozilla libraries.

There were no PHP libraries I found that could handle this problem. There were several apps that seemed to avoid the issue, Roundcube was one, Squirrelmail I believe was the other. I didn't spend much effort on a "PHP solution" after this library that I can remember or have notes on. Sorry, but it has been nearly a year.

[Slamdunk]

@Lewiscowles1986 thank you for your feedback, all the available fixes have been implemented in #196