tovis wrote:
>>> 1. How can I makemime header "From:" with characters different from
>>> ASCII,
>>>    I mean national characters iso-8859-2 or utf-8?
>>>    When I'm use makemime ... -a "From: Kökény Tüske
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
>>>    I have funny chacters as a result, instead of ö,é,ü receiving a mail.
>>
>> Those should be inline quoted printable (or base 64) specifying the
>> charset, e.g. ?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6k=E9ny_T=FCske?= as in rfc1342. You
>> can get that as `reformime -o 'Kökény Tüske'`
> 
> So, it means I have should change encoding for this session to "qouted
> printable" and using this strange (for me) coding, or use "base 64" and I
> can use utf-8 characters (as my local setting in Debian Etch)?

The original quoting rules didn't specify unicode or utf-8 as a 
possible charset, thus you should encode in an ISO-8859-X alphabet. 
reformime -c utf-8 resorts to a =?utf-8?B??= (B for base 64) encoding, 
which is less readable by humans happening to look at the mail source 
file.

All these standards are changing, but it will take decades before 
everyone agrees on a worldwide charset (probably klingon, if not utf-8.)

After encoded, the fields are ascii-compatible, thus can be used 
without worrying. I don't think locale settings should affect the 
result; that may only alter how the shell handles arguments being 
passed to reformime, in case it needs to transcode them (does it?) 
However, I still have LANG=C :-)

>>> 2. Is it possible to send mail, to a particular folder in the Maildir of
>>> the
>>>    user, different then INBOX?
>>
>> Nope. However, you can send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where ext is
>> whatever you like, and then have a .courier-default file that takes
>> care of it (if no specific courier-ext exist), possibly delivering it
>> into an "ext" folder, creating folders as needed, or whatever you code.
> 
> You mean I need to setup aliases to deliver this way - and is this a legal
> (usual) method to do, or is it a "hack" which would work up to next
> upgrade?

They are not aliases, strictly speaking.

It is not a _standard_ feature, of course, but it has always been in 
Courier, AFAIK. It is used for handling mailing lists, so I'd say it 
is part of Courier's architecture. It is handy for "SpamFingers" that 
don't have to be set up in advance, and are thus convenient when you 
are asked for an email address on some website you don't trust.












































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