Re: RMAIL doesn't always recognize rmail-mime-charset-pattern

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 19 May 2002, David Kuehling wrote:

> Today I made a copy of my inbox file, before using Emacs' pop3 mail
> retrieval.  The bug is now reproducable, when receiving that mail box
> via pop3 (2nd mail in the mailbox file).  But it won't occur, when I use
> C-u g savedmailbox <Ret>.  That's cool!

This probably means that the culprit is something related to process I/O, 
not file I/O.  Do you read your pop3-fetched mail by receiving output of 
some process, or does that process create a file which you then direct 
RMAIL to read?

> And I just discovered another mysterious bug.  The last mailinglist mail
> in the mailbox (from debian-japanese) contains a 
> 
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> header, although its contents are obviously iso-2022-jp (7bit) encoded.
> When receiving the mailbox via pop3, the japanese characters in the mail
> show up correctly, and an
> 
> X-Coding-System: iso-2022-jp-unix
> 
> header is generated.  How can that happen?  The same mail, however, read
> via C-u g ... will be decoded as iso-8859-1 (as it should be).

Probably due to the same factor: somehow, when RMAIL reads your mail ``as 
usual'', it applies some other default.

I will dwell on this and see what can I come up with.