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

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:49:47AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> > 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

Er, no, it wasn't garbage, it was a MIME-encoded Subject field; this is
the way it should be transferred, this is the way it should be received
in the end-user's mailbox.  It is the job of the end-user's MUA to
decode it before *displaying* it to the user.

To the original poster: I don't really have a straight-up solution to
your problem, but you might try playing with the "mimedecode" and
"pass8bits" options in your fetchmail configuration file.  Both of them
should be unset by default, and this should be fine for most cases; if
you have explicitly set any of them, try unsetting it, see if that
helps.  Otherwise, try setting them in some combination to see what
happens.

G'luck,
Peter

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