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

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 06.03.20 um 15:48 schrieb Sergey Organov:
>> 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.
>
The question is how much open UTF-8 is really sent - this would not be
overly compatible and will still often need downconversion to 7-bit mail...