LO62456: INOTES: CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING IS SET TO QUOTED-PRINTABLE WITH JAPANESE

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Environment:
  Domino 8.5.2
  
  Use settings as follows:
  Server configuration document
  [MIME] tab - [Settings by Character Set Groups] tab
  MIME settings by character set group: Japanese
  Header: Character Set: ISO-2022-JP, Encoding:Base64
  Body: Character Set: ISO-2022-JP, Encoding: None
  
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Access mail DB via browser
  2. Create new message using Japanese for body
  3. Use Format - Rich Text
  4. Send the message to outbound
  5. In MIME source, there is the description as follows
  
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
  Content-Type: text/html;
     charset=ISO-2022-JP
  
  6. Create new message using Japanese for body again
  7. Use Format - Plain Text
  8. Send the message to outbound
  9. In MIME source, there is the description as follows
  
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
  Content-Type: text/plain;
     charset=ISO-2022-JP
  
  In iNotes 8.5.1 and 8.5.2, Content-Transfer-Encoding is set to
  quoted-printable.
  But if the MIME message is sent from Notes client and Plain Text
  Format with iNotes 8.5.0 or 8.0.2, Content-Transfer-Encoding is
  not set.
  
  ISO-2022-JP is 7bit so it dose not necessary to use
  quoted-printable encoding.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• A programming error was found and will be corrected in a future
   release.
  

Problem conclusion

• A programming error was found and will be corrected in a future
   release.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is associated with SPR# TSHI8JX8V2.
  when inotes sends an html text part with binary encoding, it
   does not include any line breaks.  this fix adds the init
   setting, MIMEInsertHTMLLineBreaks=1, to force the part to be
   7bit encoding and to insert line breaks at appropriate places
   in the html text to insure that the lines do not exceed the
   SMTP line length limit off 998.    previously, we used
   quoted-printable encoding to force line breaks into long
   single line html parts, but some customers were unhappy with
   this approach.
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  DOMINO SERVER

• Fixed component ID

  5724E6200

Applicable component levels

• R852 PSN

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