Both encoder and decoder are needed. Here is a list of RFCs. utf-7 - ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2152.txt imap rfc for modified utf-7 - ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2060.txt

Set target to M7, adding bienvenu@netscape.com,bobj@netscape.com to cc.

M-UTF-7 is needed in both directions for IMAP folders. I suggest not doing an encoder for plain UTF-7, making it a read-only charset.

I think plain UTF-7 encoder is needed to send UTF-7 mails.

My point is that there is no need to send UTF-7 mail. Such mail should be sent in UTF-8 instead.

UTF-7 message send issue was forwarded to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news.

Is don't think this bug is about IMAP. Bug 6814 is about supporting modified UTF-7 for IMAP folder names. This bug seems to be about sending messages encoded in UTF-7. I've updated the summary to reflect this. I agree with jgmeyers -- I'm not sure how useful or advisable it is to send UTF-7 email. Let's see if we get any feedback from the news group. Moving to M8.

We are not going to include UTF-7 to the message compose charset menu. UTF-7 converters were checked in so I mark this as fixed. If any quality issue for converters, it should be filed separately.

Changed Summary to reflect the bug. This bug is NOT about sending UTF-7 email. It was decide that we will not support sending UTF-7 messages. We will support viewing properly labeled UTF-7 messages.

** Checked with 6/19/99 Win32 build ** The encoding part seems to be OK. I'm not sure if decoding is working, but there are some problems in viewing JPN strings: Msgs sent from 4.6: 1. Can view body but not thread pane header nor msg window header Msgs sent from 5.0: 2. Cannot view body. However, I can view all of the above correctly with 4.6 client. This may be due to Bug 8343. In any case, decoding is not working and so I'll re-open this bug.

Clearing Fixed resolution.

But Bug 8343 is not a converter problem. The decoder is just fine. So, what's going on then? Please provide a test case and I'll try to see where we have the problem and why.

** Checked with 7/1/99 Win32 build ** This has been a complicated problem but I think we have almost all the pieces resolved now. First, the viewing problem. 1. The problem with viewing UTF-7 plain text mail from 4.6 had to do with the fact that 4.6 did not use MIME header. Charset parameter (=UTF-7) is sent out. This explains why the headers could not be displayed. 2. Outlok Express 4 labels the header but not the body, and this caused the body not to be displayed without additional steps. 3. Outlook Express 5 sends the properly labeled header and body. Thus we have no problem with OE 5 UTF-7 msgs. 4. With Messenger 5.0 Mail send. We were sending extraneous characters before and after the intended string until the 6/30/99 build. 5.0 had was displaying something extra (a blank suqare) at the beginning of a string. Starting with 7/1/99 build, we seem to be sending only the intended string + the coda character. Here's an example Intended string: êtíra 6/30/99 build: +ABcA6g-t+AO0-ra+AA0AC 7/1/99 build: +AOo-t+AO0-ra+AA0AC Outlook Express 5: +AOo-t+AO0-ra Note: +AAOAC at the end of the 7/1/99 encoded string. I'm now inclined to mark this bug resolved, but still not sure why we are inserting extra stuff at the end.

Didn't we decide to never send UTF-7 in mail messages?

No, what we decided was that we would not ship with UTF-7 menu for the mail composer. But someone can actually enable UTF-7 menu easily via modifying the .xul file. I think we still need to send correctly encoded characters in case someone enables the menu.

Can we confirm (e.e.g, in debugger, in standalone testing) that the converter is not adding the extraneious bytes? If so, we need to reassign it to someone in the mail team. Is this only happening for UTF-7?

Actually, if we can confirm this is not the converter adding the extraneous bytes, let's mark this bug FIXED and open a new bug.

I tried the same characters as momoi san, looks like line feed 0x0A is encoded (so the message is encoded in one big line). Although I don't know if we should encode it or not. But I found that UTF-7 is actually included in the menu. I don't think I added it, we should remove it later.

\u000a should not be encoded. The MIME "text/*" top-level type requires all of its charsets to encode line breaks as \x0d \x0a.

What he said. Space (decimal 32), tab (decimal 9), carriage return, (decimal 13), and line feed (decimal 10) are allowed to be represented by their ASCII equivalents. Our converter probably should do so. UTF-7 RFC (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2152.txt): A UTF-7 stream represents 16-bit Unicode characters using 7-bit US- ASCII octets as follows: ... Rule 3: The space (decimal 32), tab (decimal 9), carriage return (decimal 13), and line feed (decimal 10) characters may be directly represented by their ASCII equivalents. However, note that MIME content transfer encodings have rules concerning the use of such characters. Usage that does not conform to the restrictions of RFC 822, for example, would have to be encoded using MIME content transfer encodings other than 7bit or 8bit, such as quoted-printable, binary, or base64.

Right. Fixed.

** Checked with 7/9/99 Win32 build ** I checked the sample string: êtíra and confirmed that we are not encoding LF any more. Thus the raw string looks like: +AOo-t+AO0-ra which is what we desired for this. I also checked "space" and "tab" and they are not encoded, either. I'm not sure of "CR", however. I'm looking at Windows client, but we are not using CR+LF for linebreaks. I wonder if there is a convention/requirement to use the Unix type "LF" only for sending mail In any case, I'm going to mark this fix verified now as all remaining issues seem to have been verified. I'll file a new bug to remove UTF-7 from the Charset menu for M9 since we probably won't need it for regular debugging any more.

A request to remove UTF-7 from the Mail Composer menu has been filed as Bug 9555.