I can confirm that now my email subjects too are utf-8 encoded. However, I cannot send asynchronous mails anymore. I'm getting this: 14:49:00,875 ERROR [TimerImpl] Error invoking ejbTimeout: javax.ejb.EJBException | : java.lang.RuntimeException: exception invoking: newMessage If I remove the @Asynchronous annotation from the method newMessage(), sending works again. I'm using JSF RI 1.2 with Seam 1.2.1 (latest from CVS). tazman View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035297#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...