On Mon, July 9, 2012 23:12, Jack M wrote: > Cameron Simpson wrote on 07/09/12 at 08:41:26 +1000: >> On 08Jul2012 18:32, Jack M <j...@forallx.net> wrote: >> | However, I do keep copies of my sent >> | mail in $record, and when I look at the saved copy, it is not >> QP-encoded. >> | Also, the mysterious QP only happens on *some* mails that I send, >> indeed, only >> | on *some* of the mails with non-ASCII in them. This makes me think >> mutt isn't >> | the culprit. >> >> It does sound that way. Is it associated with particular target >> addresses? >> That would involve particular mail systems in the transport. > > The phenomenon hasn't yet happened enough for me to detect a pattern, > although > the instance that made me start this thread was a message I sent to a > googlegroups mailing list; it was fine when I sent it, but when the list > sent > me a copy, it was QP-encoded.
Googlegroups is known to be broken in this respect. It somehow "changes" the mails by advertising utf8 although the mail is still in latin1 or something like this (I suspect this happens by trying to convert the message to utf-8, but this silently fails, and the mail is bogus). This has been discussed numereous times on the vim list, e.g.: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_use/Qcr2rJW7lFY/AnWOilJTmd0J http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/dded7a677f5ee420 http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/1d2384d110b4fc1b http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/2a3a6d5a5e19f340?hl=de (those are just the once I could google quickly, I am pretty sure, this has been discussed even more often). If you sent the message correctly in utf-8, everything is ok, it only happens when you are sending the message in a charset different then utf-8. regards, Christian
