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Title: Japanese Support
Post by: George Branner on October 08, 2003, 11:12:38 PM

I work for a Japanese company and many of our employees recieve email in Japanese, yet the webmail mail part will scramble japanese characters even on a machine running JAPANESE windows.

Are there any plans to add the ability? We really need it here.

George Branner
IT Manager
Miyano Machinery

Title: Re: Japanese Support
Post by: Klaus Eckert on October 10, 2003, 04:24:33 AM

there are computers in japan?
and email, too?

just kidding aruond ;-))

cheers klaus

Title: Re: Japanese Support
Post by: Reinhold on November 28, 2003, 02:14:58 PM

Klaus: What do you think where a lot of your nice stuff comes from .-)

George...

I don't use SME webmail that much ... never with japanese.
But via a standard 6.03 SME Mailboxserver "out of the box" I can send/receive japanese/chinese character e-mails without any problem!
I use WIN-XP and ME in us/ge version (haven't installed the jp  XP yet .-) - no need .-) and as e-mail prog (mostly) MS Outlook.

The only thing that is needed to display is the japanese / chinese extensions for Internet explorer 6.x  ... and you have to USE UNICODE (but Outlook will ask you if you forget to select).

It doesn't work in the "phorum" too so it's in your mailbox----
See that it works (*_*)

Best regards
Reinhold

Title: Re: Japanese Support
Post by: Reinhold on November 28, 2003, 10:35:56 PM

George,

My test e-mail came back like that :-/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at miyano-usa.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Anyway: Japanese works on SME ... I can prove it

Title: Re: Japanese Support
Post by: ian wells on December 06, 2003, 04:39:58 PM

For Webmail to be usable for Japanese there are two options:

1) Take the CVS HEAD version of IMP and install that

2) Wait for IMP4 to be released which should be any time now (it was promised for this year).

Dan Brown has so far been kind enough to turn the official IMP releases into RPMs which are then very easy to install.

I have not managed to install a CVS HEAD version myself yet, but have tried on occasions.

I have been waiting for Japanese support ever since moving to E-Smith.

Ian

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