Re: Plans for the 0.2 release (this week)

Subject: Re: Plans for the 0.2 release (this week)

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:06:17 -0700

To: Jameson Rollins

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Michael Elkins

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:06:54AM -0400, Jameson Rollins wrote:
> Again, this subject line shows up fine for me in notmuch-show in emacs.
> I believe the non-ASCII characters in headers have to be escaped for
> mail handlers to properly handle them, and the reader should translate.
> I need to find a reference for this...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047

The problem is not the MTA, but the fact that the sender and recipient
may be using different character sets.  There is no way to decode it
properly unless the sender specifies the character set.

me

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