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

[Jesper Harder]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> 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?

I changed my mind again :-) 

I did some tests by sending utf-8 with CTE 8bit -- and binding
`smtpmail-code-conv-from' doesn't work in this case.  When I run
`smtpmail-send-queued-mail' Emacs asks me to select a coding system:

,----
| These default coding systems were tried:
|   iso-latin-1-unix
| However, none of them safely encodes the target text.
| 
| Select one of the following safe coding systems:
|   utf-8 raw-text emacs-mule no-conversion
`----

I tried all the options, but none of them worked, i.e. the mail is
garbled when it arrives.

Changing `smtpmail-send-queued-mail' to read the file literally _does_
work for utf-8.


BTW, it should probably also be checked if feedmail.el works correctly
when queing 8bit messages with different charsets.

-- 
Cheers,
Jesper Harder