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from: Niels Haedecke
date: 2019-01-01 15:49:00
subject: mbfido: error converting encoding - help anyone?

Hi there,
it looks like mbfido on my system has a problem with emails (smtp) that are
encoded in CP437:

chartran_init(IBM437, Undef): iconv_open(Undef, UTF-8) error: Invalid
argument

mbfido then exits with a SIGSEV and thus blocks all mail processing until I
manually remove or "zero" the mbox files in the user's home directory.

This only happens with email, not echo- or netmail.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue? It seems like iconv is unable to work
the "Undef" source encoding. But the original message is in CP437.

Kind regards,
Niels


    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

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SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

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