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

[Jesper Harder]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

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

Yeah, I've had 

      (add-to-list 'mm-body-charset-encoding-alist '(iso-8859-1 . 8bit))

in my .gnus for ages, so I only just noticed.  I think Gnus used to use
QP for Latin-1 in an earlier version.