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Setting font and message options for international languages
A single IBM® Lotus® Domino™ SMTP server can handle inbound and outbound messages in any language group or character set, including double-byte character sets. For each character set group, for example, Simplified Chinese, Domino provides default settings that control how servers convert messages in that character set group from IBM® Lotus® Notes® rich-text format to MIME and vice-versa. You can change the default settings to customize conversions for specific languages.

Inbound settings specify font options that control how the text of a MIME message using a given character set tag displays in Notes. Outbound settings determine the character set tag and encoding to apply when converting Notes rich-text messages to MIME.

1. Make sure you already have a Configuration Settings document for the server(s) to be configured.

2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and expand the Messaging section.

3. Click Configurations.

4. Select the Configuration Settings document for the mail server or servers you want to administer, and click Edit Configuration.

5. Click the Basics tab. If it is not already selected, select the field "International MIME Settings for this document."

6. Click the MIME - Settings by Character Set Groups tab.

7. Complete the following fields and then click Save & Close:
FieldEnter
For outbound message options below use all possible choices (Advanced users)When unchecked (default), Domino's Outbound Message Options are set to use the standard character set and encoding method for the language group specified in the field "MIME settings by character set." The options in the Character Set field are limited to the standard character sets for the language group.

Check this box to enable use of nonstandard character set choices in the header and body of messages in any language group.

MIME settings by character set groupClick the drop-down list to choose the language group to configure. You can accept the default settings or configure specific settings for one or more language groups.

The language group displayed at the time you save and close the document is not the only one for which Domino saves settings. After you save the Configuration Settings document, Domino retains the settings for each language group that you modified.


To set character set options for inbound messages

1. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and expand the Messaging section.

2. Click Configurations.

3. Select the Configuration Settings document for the mail server or servers you want to administer, and click Edit Configuration.

4. Click the MIME - Settings by Character Set Groups tab.

5. In the Inbound Message Options - Font Options section, complete the following fields, and then click Save & Close:
FieldEnter
HTML ProportionalThe typeface style to be used for proportional type in inbound SMTP messages.

(default = Default Serif)

HTML Mono-spacedThe typeface to be used for monospaced type in inbound SMTP messages.

(default = Default Monospace)

HTML SizeThe point size to use for HTML text in inbound SMTP messages.

(default = 12)

Plain textThe typeface to be used for plain text in inbound SMTP messages.

(default = Default Monospace)

Plain text sizeThe point size to use for plain text in inbound SMTP messages.

(default = 10)


6. The change takes effect after the next Router configuration update. To put the new setting into effect immediately, reload the routing configuration.

To set character set options for outbound messages

You can specify the character set and encoding type for the header and body text of outbound messages. The settings you select do not affect attachments. For each language (or region) there is a default character set. For example, for Western Europe the default character set is ISO-8859-1, but other Latin character sets can also be used. You can indicate the specific character set and encoding to be used for outbound SMTP message headers and body content. In general, use the same character set for both the headers and the body of outbound messages. However, because some characters set groups, such as Korean, typically use different character sets for the headers and body, by default, for these languages, the character set specified for header text differs from the character set for body text.

For a complete list of character set groups and the default characters sets used in the headers and body of messages in those groups, see the topic Table of language codes supported in Notes and Domino.

1. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and expand the Messaging section.

2. Click Configurations.

3. Select the Configuration Settings document for the mail server or servers you want to administer, and click Edit Configuration.

4. Click the Basics tab and select "International MIME settings for this document."

5. Click the MIME - Settings by Character Set Groups tab.

6. In the Outbound Message Options section, complete the following fields, and then click Save & Close:
FieldChoose
Header - Character SetThe character set Domino uses to display message headers. The default entry depends on the character set language group currently selected in the field "MIME settings by character set group." In most cases, the default entry is the best choice for representing header text for this language group.
Body - Character Set The character set used to display message body. The default entry depends on the character set language group currently selected in the field "MIME settings by character set group." In most cases, the default entry is the best choice for representing body text for this language group.
Header - EncodingThe encoding method for outbound headers. The default entry depends on the character set language group currently selected in the field "MIME settings by character set group. "In most cases, the default entry is the best choice for encoding header text for this language group.

Choose one:

  • Base64
  • Quoted Printable
  • None
Body - EncodingThe encoding method for outbound body text. The default entry depends on the character set language group currently selected in the field "MIME settings by character set group." In most cases, the default entry is best choice for encoding body text for this language group.

Choose one:

  • Base64
  • Quoted Printable
  • None
7. The change takes effect after the next Router configuration update. To put the new setting into effect immediately, reload the routing configuration.

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