[TYPO3-dev] direct_mail / t3lib_htmlmail sender name

[Bernhard Kraft]

Steffen Ritter wrote:

> But the sendername is not encrypted correctly, seems there is an 
> "double" encryption...
> 
> it's like "Oberflächenschutz".

Hey!

Usually this should not occur. The from_name/from_email parameter are 
added to the mail header using the "add_header" method:

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$this->add_header('From: '.$this->from_name.' <'.$this->from_email.'>');
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The add_header() method takes care of setting the value to contain a 
string of current charset:

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$parts[1] = t3lib_div::encodeHeader($parts[1], $enc, $this->charset);
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Your string is an utf-8 string shown in it's is-8859-1 representation. 
Try to inspect the "$this->charset" variable if it is set to "utf-8". 
Also have a look at the "from_name" variable if it is already encoded 
twice when you pass it to t3lib_htmlmail!

As last solution you could try calling:

$myHtmlmailObject->useBase64();

Which will send the mail base64 encoded. This has the disadvantage that 
the mails grows by 33%.


greets,
Bernhard