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to: Niels Haedecke
from: Vince Coen
date: 2019-01-01 20:00:00
subject: mbfido: error converting

Hello Niels!

Tuesday January 01 2019 15:49, you wrote to All:

 > 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


On top of that it issued a advert for your system.
Please stop it.



Vince

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