Re: Unreadable Messages Downloaded
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Mitchell Pryor <[email protected]> wrote: > I just started using 'getmail' for a new project I'm working on and was > enjoying the new experience until this happened: Problem: Emails sent from > our IBM I computer using a 3rd party email utility called MMAIL are > unreadable after 'getmail' downloads them. The Subject, Sender and body > appear to be untranslated to ascii. [...] > Sender: =?UTF-8?B?Q29tcHV0ZXIgUm9vbU==?= <[email protected]> > From: =?UTF-8?B?Q29tcHV0ZXIgUm9vbU==?= <[email protected]> > To: =?UTF-8?B?VFlMRVIgSEFMTE==?= <[email protected]>, > =?UTF-8?B?Uk9OIEtBWU==?= <[email protected]>, =?UTF-8?B?TFlOTiBQQVJIQU1=?= > <[email protected]>, =?UTF-8?B?VE9OWUEgUlVUSE==?= <[email protected]>, > =?UTF-8?B?U0FORFJBIFNUQU5DSUx=?= <[email protected]>, > =?UTF-8?B?SkVSUlkgUE9ZVEhSRVNT?= <[email protected]>, > =?UTF-8?B?TUlLRSBQUllPUk==?= <[email protected]>, =?UTF-8?B?T1BT?= > <[email protected]> > Subject: =?UTF-8?B?QVAwNjAzIC0gTUFUQ0hFRCBJTlZPSUNFIENPVU5UIFNVTU1BUll=?= That is rfc2047 encoding, the current standard for representing non-ascii characters in rfc822/2822/etc mail headers (as opposed to body encodings, which can take other forms). Note this has been the standard for more than 20 years. Your mail client should display these correctly as the unicode characters they are. If not, your mail reader is at fault. getmail appears to be working correctly here. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------