Hello,
This has been bugging me all afternoon, so it's time I let people
who know what they're doing tell me what I'm doing wrong :)
Basically, I want mail sent with foreign chars such as £ å é etc
to *not* be sent as QP or base64. Now, with
% /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
From: me
To: you
Subject: blah
£ñ÷åòôùïéõ±²³´
.
it works *perfectly*. I get a nice clean mail, which hasn't been
modified in any way, and everything in the world is Good [tm].
Unfortunately, no matter how I configure mutt, I cannot seem to
get it to behave. I believe the matter is due to the allow_8bit
and use_8bitmime variables, but no combination of these two gives
me what I want.
set allow_8bit, unset use_8bitmime:
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to base64 by gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk
"£" ends up coming out as "?"
unset allow_8bit, unset use_8bitmime:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
"£" ends up coming out as "?"
unset allow_8bit, unset use_8bitmime:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
"£" ends up coming out as "?"
set allow_8bit, set use_8bitmime:
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to base64 by gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk
"£" ends up coming out as "?"
I don't know where to go from here. All other configuration variables
seem to be unrelated. I want my mails to stop having lame "=20" things
plastered all over them when I want to use a "£" sign.
Someone please give me clues :-)
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