From: Karl Hasselström Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:40:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a MIME-Version header to e-mails Message-ID: <20061108084038.GA3164@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: On 2006-11-07 19:09:06 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > I re-implemented parts of the mail and import commands (inspiring > from your patches). They now use the email Python package. The mail > command encodes the body to 7 or 8bit depending on non-ascii > characters. Even though it turned out to be possible to use 8bit always? > The headers are QP-encoded. Strictly speaking, it's rfc2047-encoded. I think the options are QP and base64. > The import command can decode messages properly and can also handle > multipart e-mails. Goodie. > I still have to write a test script but my simple tests showed that > it works. Please let me know if there is anything wrong (especially > with the QP-encoding of the mail headers). I won't have time to check this out today (in fact, it may have to wait until the weekend). But when I do check it out, I might have time to write that test, so please holler if you start working on that. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com