On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:58:32PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El d??a Wednesday, July 25, 2012 a las 12:49:31PM -0400, Mark E. Mallett 
> escribi??:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 04:39:21PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > El d?a Wednesday, July 25, 2012 a las 09:44:47AM -0400, Mark E. Mallett 
> > > escribi?:
> > > > 
> > > > Are you putting in a Mime-Version header field, or is that getting
> > > > stripped too?  (I don't see it in the example you appended)
> > > 
> > > No, should we?
> > 
> > Yeah, if you are using any MIME header fields you should have the
> > MIME-Version field too (see RFC2045). 
> 
> We have not set any MIME header fields, only Content-type;

Content-Type is a MIME header field, per the RFC I mentioned.  Also,
go here:
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/perm-headers.html
find Content-Type, which refers you to RFC 4021;
go there, find Content-Type, which refers you to RFC 2045;
which tells you that you need a Mime-Version header field :)


> I checked the source of the resulting mail and se now that UTF-8 coded
> chars are represented like this, an "?" is arriving as "=C3=BC"; this is
> not what we wanted, even if the MUA can show them fine; but what about other
> software reading such mails? I'd prefer plain UTF-8 body.

Well, as a gross generalization:  it looks like it's doing a
quoted-printable content-transfer-encoding, which it's allowed to do in
order to convert 8-bit data (or any bytes, really) to something more
palatable to its context or configuration.  An MTA shouldn't be
accepting raw 8-bit without negotation, though some do, and it's free to
change the encoding when it e.g. talks to another MTA or to a delivery
agent.  In other words, you as a sender may not get to have a say as to
how the receiver or any intermediate MTA encodes it.

All rather far afield from mutt, though.

mm

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