Re: POP3 UTF-8 support

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Aug 2021 11:31:20 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kopornoky Tamás <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > This E-mail message was determined to be Unicode-formatted
> > but your E-mail reader does not support Unicode E-mail.
> 
> Just for the heck of it, try the attached patch against your local copy of
> getmail.  It just onconditionally sends that UTF8 command from RFC6856 after
> logging in.  It'll probably cause getmail to throw an exception later - I'm
> guessing a UnicodeDecodeError, probably - but it's worth a shot.

After a *tiny* bit of testing, I may have been pessimistic.  It looks like
getmail may be fine with the UTF8-containing message/global object.

I look forward to your results.

Charles
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