Hi,

I'm using mass contact (6.x-1.0-beta2) in conjunction with SMTP Authentication Support (6.x-1.0-beta3) on a up-to-date Drupal site (6.13). I have no other mail modules installed (AFAIK).

When sending mails, the charset used in the mail is "iso-8859-1", even if I set the "Charachter Set" entry to "UTF-8" resulting in some very ugly UTF-8 code in the mail.

The regular contact form sends mails with the proper encoding.

Any idea, why and how this is changed.
Would an update to the 3.x-dev branch help?

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skybow’s picture

skybow commented

After running the code inside the debugger, I found something within the file class.phpmailer.php: There the default charset ist set to "iso-8859-1".
Since I send my mass contact mails as both plain and html mail, the content type used is "multipart/alternative" (which is certainly correct from the mass_contact perspective)
However, the SMTP module won't modify the charset encoding which results in mass_contact sending in "utf-8" and PHPMailer interpreting this as "iso-8859-1".
So my fix is to set the default encoding to "utf-8" in class.phpmailer.php

All in all, the problem is not a particular mass_contact problem. The question is, if this should be considered a SMTP module bug.

oadaeh’s picture

oadaeh commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

If the problem still exists, it would be a PHPMailer bug.