Re: [smtpmail.el] Encoding problem in smtpmail-send-queued-mail

[Simon Josefsson]

harder@ifa.au.dk (Jesper Harder) writes:

>> Could you please look in the queued mail files and see how are they
>> encoded on disk?  You could use the `od' utility for that.
>
> The queued mails are stored on disk with the same encoding and CTE as
> the MIME headers specify, in this case
>
>         Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>         Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Perhaps I should mention that Gnus uses CTE base64 for everything except
> ASCII and iso-2022-jp-* in the default setting -- so unless you
> customize `mm-body-charset-encoding-alist' you won't see this bug.
>
> But for me sending Latin-1 as base64 isn't acceptable because a lot of
> old mail clients won't be able to decipher it.

This is not intentional, using base64 for Latin-1 would be horrible.
Please report this as a bug.