Re: [Fetchmail-users] UTF-8 support?

[Sergey O. <sor...@gm...>]

"Carlos E. R." <rob...@te...> writes:

> On 06/03/2020 12.01, Sergey Organov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does fetchmail support UTF-8 for IMAP and POP, as described in:
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6855
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6856
>>
>> ?
>>
>> I get my mail using fetchmail  and recently started to receive
>> notification e-mails of the form:
>>
>> Subject: Cannot display Unicode content
>>
>> This E-mail message was determined to be Unicode-formatted
>> but your E-mail reader does not support Unicode E-mail.
>
> I don't think fetchmail (or any mail downloader) has any effect. The
> content is not altered at all, it may come in any charset.

Yes, but it looks like fetchmail doesn't tell the server that this is
the case, and I don't find anything about it in the fetchmail manual.

> It is your mail client software which has to interpret it.

fetchmail is the mail client here, the tool that connect to the POP
server. POP sever has no idea what kind of client fetchmail is, and if
fetchmail fails to claim UTF-8 support properly, POP server issues the
warning I get.

That's how I see the situation.

-- 
Sergey