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

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

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

> 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...

Yeah, you are right.

In this particular case it happens to be particular WWW service that was
misbehaving by putting addresses into generated e-mails in UTF-8
encoding.

Thanks once again for your help!

-- Sergey