[Daniel Kahn Gillmor] > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047#page-8 > > states quite clearly: > > + An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'. > > I'd argue that notmuch is doing the right thing here, and that MUAs that > wrap encoded words in quotes (or that apply decoding rules within quoted > strings) are the ones that need fixing. Well, feel free to spend time on trying to get the other mail programs changed. I do not have the privilege to give that project a priority myself. I just hope the notmuch developers can choose to follow the robustness principle[1] in this case, and be liberal in what notmuch accept, and conservative in what notmuch send. After all, gnus, mutt and pine handle these from fields. 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle -- Happy hacking, Petter Reinholdtsen