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Special character in subject line - email not send

Thread began 6/04/2013 6:34 am by Jediha | Last modified 12/19/2013 2:08 pm by Jason Byrnes | 2295 views | 9 replies |

Jediha

Special character in subject line - email not send

On a page with universal email server beh. applied, the subject is taken from a database row.:
<?php
$MailAttachments = "";
$MailBCC = "";
$MailCC = "";
$MailTo = "";
$MailBodyFormat = "";
$MailBody = "";
$MailImportance = "";
$MailFrom = "info@xxxxxx.nl";
$MailSubject = "".$row_rsgetmail['mail_xxxxx'] ."";
$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] = "";

//Global Variables
$WA_MailObject = WAUE_Definition("localhost","25","","","","UTF-8");


But whenever the subject contains a special character like ë, é it seems like the email is sending, no errors, but the mail is never delivered.

As soon as I replace ë for e, the email is sending ok.
The Mailobject has UTF-8, so are the database fields.
Any suggestions are welcome!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Use Dynamic Connections to create the database connection for your pages, in Dynamic Connections, set the connection character set to UTF-8.

If the connection character set is not UTF-8, foreign characters wont be returned correctly.

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Jediha

Thank you. I did that, opened and saved the mail message again, and noticed in the database that the characters showed right.

But still when I tried to sent the mail, the script is working, but no mail is received (also not in my spam folder). When I remove the special character from the subject field, I receive the mail.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

I'll need to troubleshoot directly, see the private message section.

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marcel303333

Hi Jason,

how did you solve the problem?

I have the same problem with my subjects in german e-mails. Universal Email it set to UTF-8. Special characters in the body works but not in the subject.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

by adding url encoding:

$MailSubject = "".urlencode($row_rsgetmail['mail_xxxxx']) ."";

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marcel303333

Thank you for your help!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you're welcome.

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marcel303333

How would I have to change the following code?

$MailSubject = "".((isset($_POST["Betreff"]))?$_POST["Betreff"]:"") ."";

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

$MailSubject = "".((isset($_POST["Betreff"]))?urlencode($_POST["Betreff"]):"") ."";

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