problem with Mime headers
During searching for a way to pretty print my Emails from mutt I found,
that all messages (or at least the message under concern)
are stored from ISO-8859-1 to quoted-printable. I tried various
converters, especially "recode" and recode is complaing about some
ungueltige Eingabe in data. (when I type =FC into stdin, recode behaves
brave and issues an u-umlaut), so it's not the needs getting used to
command line syntax of "recode".
Anyway, looking closer to the stored message I find this:
|This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
|this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
|
|--Boundary_(ID_nSHaJBsO42WhPK/6brziZw)
|Content-type: multipart/alternative;
|boundary="Boundary_(ID_MKUMWPz0I4J+Cb9RfTtFtg)"
|
|
|--Boundary_(ID_MKUMWPz0I4J+Cb9RfTtFtg)
|Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
|Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
Then the quoted printable message text follows
with the next message boundary.
My questions are:
\1 What mechanism causes mutt to produce a quoted printable encoded copy
of the message, when I save the file?
\2 When I view the message in mutt, umlauts are shown as two byte
characters, e.g. an u-umlaut is represented as \374.
Would be nice, mutt would do that right away with the correct
character set. Only when invoking the editor (vi) to
write a reply, the characters are shown correctly.
--
Christoph