UTF-8 doesn't work for recipients

[pbiggar]

postal acts like these two are the same thing, but they are not. As a result, I'm not able to send emails with the recipient's name in the To field, if the recipient has weird characters in their name.

circle.init=> (InternetAddress. "íč <p@p.com>")
#<InternetAddress "íč" <p@p.com>>

circle.init=> (InternetAddress. "p@p.com" "íč")
#<InternetAddress =?MacRoman?B?w63EjQ==?= <p@p.com>>

[michaelklishin]

You have MacRoman as encoding. Pass -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to the JVM (this is what Leiningen 2 automatically does, for example, starting with Preview 5 or so).

[pbiggar]

Thanks Michael. That changes the symptoms, but doesn't solve the problem:

circle.init=> (InternetAddress. "íč <p@p.com>")
#<InternetAddress "íč" <p@p.com>>

circle.init=> (InternetAddress. "p@p.com" "íč")
#<InternetAddress =?UTF-8?B?w63EjQ==?= <p@p.com>>

To elaborate, postal calls InternetAddress with only one argument, which means there is no way to get the second behaviour. This is causing my emails to encode incorrectly.

[michaelklishin]

As far as I can see in the javadoc for javax.mail, the charset parameter is in the 3-arity constructor.

But now it does sound like an issue in Postal.

[drewr]

Thanks for the report Paul. Please change your version to 1.9-SNAPSHOT and see if your issue is resolved. If so I'll make a new release.

[scramjet]

I've just run into this issue also, for non-ASCII characters in the sender's name.

It appears that commit 148beef hasn't made it into a release? Any chance of resurrecting it? Happy to test it out.

[drewr]

Sorry for dropping this! I should have released this anyway and just fixed whatever problems were lingering. It's in 1.11.0.

[sfnelson]

RFC6531 email addresses still don't work in postal after this change.

(defn make-address
  ([^String addr ^String charset]
     (let [a (try (InternetAddress. addr)
                  (catch Exception _))]
       (if a
         (InternetAddress. (.getAddress a)
                           (.getPersonal a)
                           charset))))
  ([^String addr ^String name-str ^String charset]
     (try (InternetAddress. addr name-str charset)
          (catch Exception _))))

The three argument version of this code is not called by any postal code afaict, and the two argument version returns nil when given non-ascii characters as input, e.g.

(make-address "Tést <test@example.com>" "utf-8") ;; good
=> #<InternetAddress =?utf-8?Q?T=C3=A9st?= <test@example.com>>
(make-address "tést@example.com" "utf-8") ;; bad
=> nil
(make-address "tést@example.com" "Tést" "utf-8") ;; good, but never called
=> #<InternetAddress =?utf-8?Q?T=C3=A9st?= <tést@example.com>>

[drewr]

@sfnelson Responded over on #51