joeyates/imap-backup

Error during backup: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

galmok opened this issue · 1 comments

galmok commented

While backing up my inbox, I received this message twice:

E, [2024-07-24T10:00:45.983931 #189] ERROR -- : [INBOX] incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
E, [2024-07-24T10:00:49.299734 #189] ERROR -- : [INBOX] incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

The backup continued on its own, but what does that mean in regards to my backup?
Are messages lost, or is this more like a warning and not an error?

joeyates commented

Hi @galmok

This seems to happen with certain email server setups. The way that the email text is encoded is not compatible with the standards and imap-backup doesn't know how to treat the single message. In this case, the specific message is skipped and the rest of the backup continues.