0.64 Send image via email - text part

[dietmar]

Using 0.64 on Ubuntu I noticed the following problem when sending an image via email. As this might be related to the email client receiving the message, I'm not sure if it's an MP bug. Could some of you check and try to verify?

When sending an image as an email, XnView Classic used to compose the message and the open the standard email client to (change and) send it. MP directly sends the email without further interaction, at least on this Ubuntu machine. [I'm not sure I like this change ]

When I enter non-ASCII characters in my email message, such as German umlauts or the ß (HTML: ß ) character, these are not displayed correctly at the recipient (using Thunderbird).

Dietmar

[xnview]

XnView on ubuntu use Wine, and use MAPI. But XnViewMP is native, and send email by smtp directly... I'll try to find a way to use default client

[m.Th.]

Using 0.64 on Ubuntu I noticed the following problem when sending an image via email. As this might be related to the email client receiving the message, I'm not sure if it's an MP bug. Could some of you check and try to verify?

When sending an image as an email, XnView Classic used to compose the message and the open the standard email client to (change and) send it. MP directly sends the email without further interaction, at least on this Ubuntu machine. [I'm not sure I like this change ]

When I enter non-ASCII characters in my email message, such as German umlauts or the ß (HTML: ß ) character, these are not displayed correctly at the recipient (using Thunderbird).

Dietmar

Yeah, I know how it is. Well... ...come to the email message hell.

To Pierre:

Try to change all the message text to "&" codes. Here's the Delphi function for this:

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function NormalizeHTML(s: string): string;
var
  i: integer;

begin
  Result:='';
  for i := 1 to Length(s) do
    if s[i]>='Α' then
      Result:=Result+'&#'+IntToStr(Ord(s[i]))+';'
    else
      Result:=Result+s[i];
end;

If you have any problem, just call me.

[dietmar]

Try to change all the message text to "&" codes.

M.Th., this will only work on HTML formatted mail.
The correct way would be to send a multi-part message (as Pierre does) with the text part as
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
(as Pierre does), but to put the correct UTF codes into the message for non-ASCII characters.

Dietmar

[xnview]

See Issue 272 for current status and details.

[helmut]

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 0.66 or later. Could you please try and confirm the bug fix, dietmar?

[dietmar]

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 0.66 or later. Could you please try and confirm the bug fix, dietmar?

Helmut, as there's now an option "Use default client", this is all I need. I don't need (and want to) put the SMPT login into XnView. The auto-generated email look fine in the client.

On a side note, the email dialog's recipient list is ordered backwards. Thus it defaults to the first email you ever sent an image to, not to the last recently used one.

Dietmar