On 020904, at 17:57:25, Jonathan Perkin wrote > Basically, I want mail sent with foreign chars such as £ å é etc > to *not* be sent as QP or base64. > > Unfortunately, no matter how I configure mutt, I cannot seem to > get it to behave: > > 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 "?"
mutt is responsible for these being encoded, as expected since $allow_8bit is unset. > set allow_8bit, unset use_8bitmime: > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to base64 by gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk > "£" 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 "?" Here the conversion is being done by gateg.kw.bbc.co.uk. Avoid having your messages relayed by this host to prevent the conversion :-). -- David Ellement
