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   Message 1,927 of 2,445   
   Vince Coen to Niels Haedecke   
   mbfido: error converting encoding - help   
   01 Jan 19 20:00:42   
   
   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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