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

[Simon Josefsson]

Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> 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.

Are your mail encoded with B64 unless you have that line?

It may be that the heuristics for selecting between B64 and QP makes
B64 "win" on very small test messages with characters with the 8:th
bit set, but for normal mail QP should win.

If you always get B64 this is quite serious bug, but I can't reproduce
it and alot of the Gnus mail with latin-1 I receive is QP.