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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Jesper Harder wrote:

> > FWIW I agree that this patch probably isn't the right thing.  The file
> > was saved using one coding system, so visiting it literally probably
> > just happens to work for latin-1.
> >
> > It seems as if `smtpmail-code-conv-from' is not set when sending
> > messages from the queue. 
> 
> I've read the code a bit more carefully now, and I agree.  Binding
> `smtpmail-code-conv-from' is probably the right thing to do.

Could you please explain why do you think so?

The problem I see with using `smtpmail-code-conv-from' is that you
might have queued mail when `smtpmail-code-conv-from' had a different
value from what it has when you actually send the queued messages.
Could that happen?

If this really could happen, then we have two alternatives:

  - Send the queued messages without any code conversions.  This means
    reading them verbatim and sending them verbatim.  I thought this
    was what your original suggestion did, so I wonder why do you think
    now it was incorrect.

  - Record somewhere, perhaps in the index, what was the encoding used
    to write the queued messages, and then use that same encoding to
    read the file and send it.