Hi, * jennyw [02-07-27 13:52:23 +0200] wrote: > I've been noticing I get some messages where the subject > begins with =?US-ASCII?Q?<the subject>?=.
First of all, in this case the encoding is stupid since it only wasts bandwidth. The default for use in headers is us-ascii (us-ascii and ascii is no difference at all) and thus 7bit. It is correct to encode allready 7bit clean subjects like this... but it's useless. > After reading this, I decided to see what other IMAP > clients saw when they displayed these messages, and they > do not show the us-ascii thing, which means that they > understand rfc 1342. Clients (like mutt) should implement MIME and thus RfC2047. RfC2047 is from 1996... enough time, IMHO. > Is there a way to get mutt to do so, also? Or does mutt > use some external program I need in order to do this? Mutt has internal routines to handle RfC2047. If you see the encoded instead of the decoded string, mutt wasn't abled to decode it because most likely the sender's client is broken. There's no real solution for use on your side. Personally I use a mailfilter which corrects broken encodings but there's no mutt-only solution I know of. bye, Rocco
