mail sent from shell shows "norwegian" language!!

[ka99]

Hi..

I'm getting all mail sent from the server "shell" shows as Norwegian language, and the Windows Mail client "em-client" shows "Norwegian language detected, Do you want to translate message now?"

I looked in DirectAdmin settings for the language, but it's English there!!

how can I fix that and have all mail in English?

TIA.

 

[Richard G]

I'm getting all mail sent from the server "shell" shows as Norwegian language,

What do you mean by "server shell". Is that mail from root?
If yes then I'm wondering in which language the server was installed, probably Norwegian.

Changing it might depend on the distro installed.
Which linux distro are you using?

 

[ka99]

Hi Richard..

yes, mail from root, I checked the server's language, its "LANG=en_US.UTF-8"!

Thank you.

 

[Richard G]

Hello.
Maybe check with this command if this shows another language.

localectl

If it shows something which is not en_US you can change it with the following commands, which you can do anyway.

localectl set-locale en_US.UTF-8
localectl set-keymap us-intl
localectl

Then things should have changed.

If you are in a Debian (or derative like Ubuntu) environment you could try the sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales command.

All commands mentioned need to be done as root goes without saying.

 

[ka99]

currently, localectl:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: us
X11 Layout: (unset)

I changed it as you suggested.. localectl:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: us-intl
X11 Layout: us
X11 Model: microsoftpro
X11 Variant: intl
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp


Thank you.

 

[Richard G]

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Did that fix the issue? If not then maybe somebody else has a clue about fixing this.
Maybe @zEitEr ?

 

[zEitEr]

Did that fix the issue? If not then maybe somebody else has a clue about fixing this.
Maybe @zEitEr ?

What emails are those? Their subject? Their content? It might be vital to identify what service sends the emails first.

 

[ka99]

What emails are those? Their subject? Their content? It might be vital to identify what service sends the emails first.

That was a test message to test outgoing mail from the server using SSH. The command was " /bin/mail -s "test" [email protected] <<< 'testing'"

 

[zEitEr]

The command was " /bin/mail -s "test" [email protected] <<< 'testing'"

And what happened then? The word "testing" got automatically translated to Norwegian? What is the mail full content including headers?

 

[ka99]

I checked the header, can't find anything related to lang there!!

Here is the header+body:

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Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 2002:a17:522:9206:b0:636:9bbf:2bdf with SMTP id c6csp10510670pvv;
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 03:42:20 -0800 (PST)
X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=2;
AJvYcCWyT1ldY+4sy5xGspZIhMNKxLk6RHcHfvH/mkYuagTc/[email protected]
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X-Received: by 2002:a17:907:9629:b0:b73:9892:7f46 with SMTP id
a640c23a62f3a-b79eeeaa229mr1028964366b.29.1765021340438; Sat, 06 Dec 2025
03:42:20 -0800 (PST)
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dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=domain.net'
Return-Path: <SRS0=8af2=6m=host.xxx.net'=[email protected]'>
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<[email protected]> (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
bits=256/256); Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:42:20 -0800 (PST)
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srs0=8af2=6m=host.xxx.net'=[email protected]' designates 1.2.3.4' as permitted
sender) client-ip=1.2.3.4';
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srs0=8af2=6m=host.xxx.net'=[email protected]' designates 1.2.3.4' as permitted
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(p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=domain.net'
Received: from root by host.xxx.net' with local (Exim 4.99) (envelope-from
<[email protected]'>) id 1vRqg7-000000001l2-2W6u for [email protected]'; Sat, 06 Dec
2025 14:42:19 +0300
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 14:42:19 +0300
To: [email protected]'
Subject: testing
User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.22
Message-Id: <[email protected]'>
From: root <[email protected]'>
X-Authenticated-Id: root

testing

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[zEitEr]

I checked the header, can't find anything related to lang there!!

the email is not translated to Norwegian