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

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

> And I am now wondering if I should kill the mimedecode option in the
> next (future) fetchmail major release.  It requires tons of code for a
> half-baked non-solution that used to work around MIME unawareness in
> mail clients some dozen years ago.

The default is off which nicely follows the principle of just passing
mail through unaltered towards the final destination/processor.
I don't use it or pass8bits. Others would be better suited to speak
on removal.

>> This is working for spam, at least. Have to wait for some non-spam to
>> see if it still works.

I sent a test note out...

Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
ZXhjdXNlIHRoZSB0ZXN0DQrQv9GA0LjQstGW0YINCg==