On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 11:28:21AM +0200, Massimo D'Antoni wrote: > I very often receive mails from > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o Leit=E3o?= > but the fact that there is a space in the encoded name keeps mutt from > showing it correctly. I noticed that everything works well if ' ' > is replaced by '_'... > Is this a mutt problem or it depends (as I suspect) on the sender's > mailer (apparently he uses netscape webmail)? In the latter case, is > there anything I can do?
The sender's mailer is bad. RFC 2047 says that spaces must NEVER be used in an encoded word in a header, since a space is an atom separator. And yes, an underscore is to be used for a space. You could fix it as the mail comes in with some tool like sed or perl. -- Anand Buddhdev
