MUAs Testing results
 
MS Windows Products
Netscape Mail 3.04
Netscape Messenger 4.04
Eudora Lite 3.0
Eudora Pro 3.0
Microsoft Outlook Express 97
Pegasus
Forte Agent
Esys Simeon 4.01
The Bat!
 UNIX Products
Pine
Elm
mh
X Windows Products
exmh
Netscape Mail 3.04 for X Windows
Netsape Messenger 4.04 for X Windows
Multilingual Support in Mail Users Agents 
 

MS Windows Products

Product: Netscape 3.04 Windows 95
URL: http://home.netscape.com/navigator/index.html
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Netscape Mail 3.04
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Fail (3)      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3) Pass (3) Fail (3)      
test-5  
(Replying Copy&  
Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3) Pass (3) Fail (3)      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass (3)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
(2) You can change encoding when reading message
(3) Send Cyrillic only in KOI8-R
(4) Display correctly Messages list if header charset coincide with Selected Document Encoding
 
 


Product: Netscape Messenger 4.04
URL: http://home.netscape.com/navigator/index.htmlProduct Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Netscape Messenger 4.04
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass (6) Pass (2)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass (6) Pass (2)      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Fail (3)      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3) Pass (3) Fail (3)      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3) Pass (3) Fail (3)      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass (6)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Pass  Pass (7) Pass (7) Maybe      
 
Comment:
(2) You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message
(3) Composed Cyrillic msg always treated as CP1251 and converted to KOI8-R and v.v. according to built-in table KOI8-R<->CP1251
(4) Send Cyrillic msg only in KOI8-R
(5) Display correctly Messages list if header charset coincide with Selected Document Encoding
(6) KOI8-U encoding reduced to KOI8-R – miss four ukr. letters (ukr. I, ukr. ii. ukr. ie, ukr. ghe with upturn)
(7) Correctly support only UTF7, UTF8 encoded message contains unconverted non-ASCII text

  


Product: Windows Eudora Lite 3.0
URL: http://www.eudora.com/international/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Fail  Fail  Fail       
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-5  
(Replying Copy&  
Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:
(2) All features are defined by Fonts Screen and Header (for Printing)
(3) Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message
(4) Text is not readable but is not corrupted when sending and can be read in another MUAs that support necessary encoding and have correspondent fonts
 


Product: Windows Eudora Pro 3.0
URL: http://www.eudora.com/international/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Fail  Fail  Fail       
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:

(2) All features are defined by Fonts Screen and Header (for Printing)
(3) Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message
(4) Text is not readable but is not corrupted when sending and can be read in another MUAs that support necessary encoding and have correspondent fonts
 

Product: MS Outlook Express 97 for Windows 95
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/outlook/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95, PE Language supplement
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06

Free form documenting of testing process
 
MS Outlook Express 97 for Windows 95
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass (1) Pass (1) Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (1) Pass (1) Pass      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (1) Pass (1) Pass      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass (1) Pass (1) Pass      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3) Pass (2) (3) Pass (3)      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass       
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
 
Comment:

(1) You should set remapping between KOI8-R for message encoding and Windows Encoding for displaying message. Message text can be typed only in Windows encoding.
(2) Comment: The same as in (1). You can type additional text in Forwarded message only in Windows encoding
(3) Comment: Don’t change Language/Encoding when forwarding readable message.
(4) You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message
(5) Composed Cyrillic msg always treated as CP1251 and converted to KOI8-R
(6) Send Cyrillic msg in selected Encoding
(7) Header field in Message windows sometimes displyed non-correctly
(8) Allow HTML Multipart/Alternative
 

  


Product: Pegasus Mail
URL: http://www.pegasus.usa.com/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Pegasus Mail
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:
*
(2) All multilingual features depends on Font setiings (need to switch language for each message)
(3) Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message
(4) Text is not readable but is not corrupted when sending and can be read in another MUAs that support necessary encoding and have correspondent fonts
(5) Can not read QP in Header
(6) Correspondent keyboard is necessary
 
 

 


Product: Forte Agent
URL: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/agent.htm
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Forte Agent
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass (5) Pass (5) Pass (5) Pass (5)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:
* You can add language and setup default Lang and correspondent fonts
(2) All multilingual features depends on Font setiings for Message >Language (need to switch language for each message)
(3) Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message
(4) Text is not readable but is not corrupted when sending and can be read in another MUAs that support necessary encoding and have correspondent fonts
(5) Can not read QP in Header
(6) Correspondent keyboard is necessary
 


Product: ESYS Simeon 4.01
URL: http://www.esys.ca/pubrl414.htm
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
ESYS Simeon 4.01
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (3) Fail (3) Fail (3) Fail (3)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
*
(2) Allow font setting for different fields and services
(3) Reduce typed 8-bit characters to 7-bit
(4) When Send/Receive can corrupt message based on wrong interpretation of 8 bit chars in Header and Body
 
 


Product: The Bat!
URL: http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

Free form documenting of testing process
 
The Bat!
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Fail (3)      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3) Pass (3) Pass (3)      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail Fail Fail Fail       
 
Comment:
(1) Can change only Language of Interface
(2) All Multilingual Features depend on Font Settings and keyboard
(3) Insert only charset=iso8859-1in Body and Headers
(4) The Bat! can not change encoding n the fly – uses current encoding for reading message
 
 


UNIX

Product: Pine
URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/availability.html
Product Contact:
Environment: FreeBSD 2.2
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Pine
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6)      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
*
(2) Depends on Terminal Settings
(3) Only Text displayed
(4) Unrecognised charset’s are treated according to charset setting
(5) Don’t understand MIME (QP, B) in B, S, A
(6) Attached images are rejected
 
 
 


Product: Elm
URL: http://www.myxa.com/elm.html
Product Contact:
Environment: FreeBSD 2.2
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Elm
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6)      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
*
(2) Depends on Terminal Settings
(3) Only Text displayed. Also can reduct 8 bitchars to ASCII
(4) Displaying and processing of message text depends on SETENV and LOCALE. Otherwise display unknown charset in ????
(5) Reject images from forwarded message. However, leave undisplayed characters in original message
(6) Attached images are rejected
(7) Don’t understand MIME (QP, B) in B, S, A
 
 


Product: mh
URL: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/
Product Contact:
Environment: FreeBSD 2.2
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06

Free form documenting of testing process
 
mh
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass  Pass       
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
*
(2) Depends on Terminal Settings
(3) Only Text displayed.
 


UNIX GUI

Product: exmh
URL: http://www.beedub.com/exmh/
Product Contact:
Environment: FreeBSD, xrus (Rus, Latin), X-Win32 Utility
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06-30

Free form documenting of testing process
 
exmh
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (5) Pass (5) Pass (5)      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass (3)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
*
(2) Message text displayed in message Windows (including MIME encoded strings in Header) according to Font Setting
(3) Use current Keyboard mapping support
(4) Include charset tag acoording to selected Font/encoding
(5) Don’t understand MIME in header
(6) Cannot change encoding for displayed message
 


Product: Netscape 3.01 for X Windows
URL: http://home.netscape.com/navigator/index.html
Product contact:
Environment: FreeBSD, xrus (Rus, Latin), X-Win32 Utility
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06-30

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Netscape 3.01 for X Windows
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Maybe      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass Pass Maybe      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass Pass Maybe      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass Pass Fail (3)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
* Setting Language (of 56) for Browser
(2) You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message
(3) Use features of current Keyboard
(4) All sent messages have only charset=iso8859-1
(5) Message list displayed only in Latin1
 

 


Product: Netscape Messenger 4.04 
URL: http://home.netscape.com/navigator/index.html
Product Contact:
Environment: FreeBSD, xrus (Rus, Latin), X-Win32 Utility
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06-30

Free form documenting of testing process
 
Netscape Messanger 4.04 Communicator
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3  
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Maybe      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass Pass Maybe      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass Pass Maybe      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass Pass Fail (3)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Pass (6) Maybe (6) Fail Fail       
Comment:
* Setting Language (of 56) for Browser
(2) You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message
(3) Use features of current Keyboard
(4) All sent messages have only charset=iso8859-1
(5) Message list displayed only in Latin1
(6) Correctly suport only UTF7