Re: Help sending UTF-8 in mail subject

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:16:15 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Organization	GNU.org.ua
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

> X-Spam-Status: No, score=3D-1.0 required=3D7.0 tests=3DALL_TRUSTED,
> 	PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,SPF_PASS autolearn=3Dham autolearn_force=3Dno
> 	version=3D3.4.6
>=20
> PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT means "MIME text/plain claims to be ASCII but isn=
't".

And it is quite right: it isn't. What happened was that you've forgotten
to specify charset:

> echo "Body =E4=DF=F1" | "$HOME/blah...blah/mailutils-3.21.90-bin/bin/mail=
" -s "Subject =E4=DF=F1" -- "[email protected]"

This should have been:

  echo "Body =E4=DF=F1" | mail -s "Subject =E4=DF=F1" --content-type=3D'tex=
t/plain; charset=3Dutf-8' -- "[email protected]"

Note the --content-type option.

Regards,
Sergey