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

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

Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> writes:

> Am 06.03.20 um 14:19 schrieb Sergey Organov:

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>> Anyway, there is no other mail client by fetchmail on my side that
>> connects to the server, and my googling about the problem revealed that
>> some recent mail servers start to issue such warning e-mail indeed when
>> they can't detect proper UTF-8 support when server needs to present a
>> message with UTF-8 encoded headers to client.
> Yup, and client support doesn't seem abundant. Python's poplib appears
> to support it in recent versions.
>
> So, bottom line: I'll put this on the TODO for 6.5, but I will probably
> not implement downgrading or conversion code, fetchmail will need to
> assume the destination SMTP/LMTP server or MDA is 8bit clean
> (8BITMIME/SMTPUTF8).
>
> This will take a while.
> https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues/14

Thanks a lot for taking care of this, Matthias!

Right now getting 3-4 such surrogate mails a day is not a big deal, but
it might start to affect more people in the future, as these new servers
start to spread.

Thanks again and have a nice weekend!

-- Sergey