Remove EncodeUTF8 infavour of using attribute casting only. The implementation of EncodeUTF8 was not correct, essentially removing any previous casting causing issues when saving a record.

app/Jobs/MessageProcess.php

@@ -14,21 +14,17 @@ use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Notification;
 use App\Classes\FTN\Message;
 use App\Models\{Echomail,Netmail,User};
 use App\Notifications\Netmails\{EchoareaNotExist,EchoareaNotSubscribed,EchoareaNoWrite,NetmailForward,NetmailHubNoUser};
-use App\Traits\{EncodeUTF8,ParseAddresses};
+use App\Traits\ParseAddresses;
 
 class MessageProcess implements ShouldQueue
 {
 	private const LOGKEY = 'JMP';
 
-	use Dispatchable,InteractsWithQueue,Queueable,SerializesModels,ParseAddresses,EncodeUTF8;
+	use Dispatchable,InteractsWithQueue,Queueable,SerializesModels,ParseAddresses;
 
 	private Echomail|Netmail|string $mo;
 	private bool $skipbot;
 
-	private const cast_utf8 = [
-		'mo',
-	];
-
 	/**
 	 * Process a message from a packet
 	 *
@@ -54,16 +50,6 @@ class MessageProcess implements ShouldQueue
 		}
 	}
 
-	public function __serialize()
-	{
-		return $this->encode();
-	}
-
-	public function __unserialize(array $values)
-	{
-		$this->decode($values);
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * At this point, we know that the packet is from a system we know about, and the packet is to us:
 	 * + From a system that is configured with us, and the password has been validated
@@ -144,8 +130,8 @@ class MessageProcess implements ShouldQueue
 					// Check if the netmail is to a user, with netmail forwarding enabled
 					$uo = User::active()
 						->where(function($query) {
-							return $query->whereRaw(sprintf("LOWER(name)='%s'",strtolower($this->mo->to)))
-								->orWhereRaw(sprintf("LOWER(alias)='%s'",strtolower($this->mo->to)));
+							return $query->whereRaw(sprintf("LOWER(name)='%s'",strtolower(utf8_encode($this->mo->to))))
+								->orWhereRaw(sprintf("LOWER(alias)='%s'",strtolower(utf8_encode($this->mo->to))));
 						})
 						->whereNotNull('system_id')
 						->single();