Re: [fetchmail-users] Mail received via IMAP4: Subject line is mangled if not in ASCII

[grarpamp <gra...@gm...>]

> I'm trying to track down what's causing mail received via IMAP4 using
> fetchmail have mangled Subject lines when the Subject is not ASCII.

You may have switched the above description around as

> This appears in the ISP mailbox:
> ISO-2022-JP

this was garbage to me and

> and it is received locally like this:

this was rendered ok.

> Is it the IMAP protocol doing the mangling?

The protocol spec is binary and not involved.
If your locale is US and you prefer to see rendered chars
instead of various codings and escapes, you might try setting
your viewing environment to LANG=en_us.UTF-8 .
Also, update and recompile old systems/libraries/apps
because some are still evolving language support.