[...] What happened was that you've forgotten to specify charset: --content-type='text/plain; charset=utf-8'
Thanks for your help. With that option, it now works right. You may want to tweak the documentation though, for the benefit of other users: --content-type=type This options sets the content type to be used by all subsequent --attach options. In my case, I am not "attaching" anything. Therefore, I would mention at that point that --content-type applies to the message body too. I know that, if you read the full Texinfo manual, it does mention it somewhere in section "3.5.5 Composing Multipart Messages", but most people are bound to miss it. After all, you wouldn't read such a section if you are not composing multipart messages. Besides, it feels a little iffy that GNU Mail assumes the subject is in UTF-8, but does not do the same with the e-mail body passed over stdin. Regards, rdiez
