Comments on: Thunderbird Email Address Auto Cleaner http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/30/thunderbird-email-address-auto-cleaner/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:07:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dotan Cohenhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/30/thunderbird-email-address-auto-cleaner/comment-page-1/#comment-862808 Dotan Cohen Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:53:16 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14905#comment-862808 > Sending the display name can be problematic because of several > reasons. One is that it is up to the account owner to pick a display > name which can sometimes be not appropriate to share with the recipient. Anyone who has every sent an email to "Slimey Bastard " will appreciate this! > Another problem is that it can lead to encoding problems on the > recipients side as well. Only if you are not using UTF-8. Use UTF-8! In any case, no matter what the encoding of the email message, the headers (including To field) are required by spec to be UTF-8. If Thunderbird is sending the headers in any other encoding, then it is a bug. > Sending the display name can be problematic because of several
> reasons. One is that it is up to the account owner to pick a display
> name which can sometimes be not appropriate to share with the recipient.

Anyone who has every sent an email to “Slimey Bastard ” will appreciate this!

> Another problem is that it can lead to encoding problems on the
> recipients side as well.

Only if you are not using UTF-8. Use UTF-8! In any case, no matter what the encoding of the email message, the headers (including To field) are required by spec to be UTF-8. If Thunderbird is sending the headers in any other encoding, then it is a bug.

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