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

1. Results of the test
 
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:
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(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

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User’s Agents
 
exmh SETUPs and First Examination 
  1. Preferences>Simple Editor>
    • >Specify Charset for text
    • > 8 bit character set: ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-8, koi8-r
    • > Quoted printable default: automatic, always, never
2. Preferences>Fonts>Font Selection> encoding (depend on available fonts) 
    • 1
    • 8
    • dectech
    • fontspesific
    • irv
    • r
    • u
  1. Preferences>Fonts>Font Selection> for widget:
  • font
  • Button.font
  • Entry.font
  • label.font
  • message.font
  • listbos.font
  • text.font
  • fl_.font
  • Ftoc*text.font
  • msg.*text.font
  • Sedit*text.font
  1. Enable MIME display
 
3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA – exmh (FreeBSD 2.2.6 + Micro X-Win32)
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
Environment: start: exmh&, xrus, X-Win32 Utility:

xrus (Rus, Latin) - Mapping (Ya (alt map, koi8 map, iso map xcyr map), Jc (alt map, koi8 map, iso map xcyr map, cp1251 map)
X-Win32 Utility: Keyboard>Select>U.S.English Keyboard  
exmh READ 
  1. Messages List doesn’t display non-ASCII QP or Base64 but display 8-bit chars (according to selected Font/Encoding)
  2. Message Windows translate MIME Headers from MIME
  3. Message text displayed in proper manner for KOI8-R (Suggestion. Depend on LOCALE and SETENV) but not for CP1251 and doesn’t depend on font change
  4. No special encoding settings except Font change for the encoding and widgets
  5. Cannot view images without special program (to be test)
exmh COMPOSE 
  1. Can type and send Cyrillic text in KOI8-R (according to Keyboard support)
exmh SEND 
  1. Send Message as is in body and doesn’t dismiss non-displayable characters
 
exmh RECOMMENDATION