Japanese subjects?

Japanese subjects?

[Mike Fabian]

I have a problem with writing Japanese subjects.

For example when I write a test mail to myself:

    To: mike@nozomi.rhein-neckar.de
    Subject: テスト日本語

the headers of the mail I receive look like:

    To: mike@nozomi.rhein-neckar.de
    Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?b?GyRCJUYlOSVIRnxLXDhsGyhC?= 

which is exactly like it should be, PGnus decodes this correctly and
shows me readable Japanese in the *Summary* buffer. Mail to
<mike@nozomi.rhein-neckar.de> doesn't actually leave my machine, it
gets delivered locally.

But when I send Mail to another of my e-mail addresses:

    To: mike.fabian@gmx.de
    Subject: テスト日本語

or
    To: fabian@nair.go.jp
    Subject: テスト日本語

it doesn't seem to work any more, the headers of the mails I receive
look like:

    To: fabian@nair.go.jp
    Subject: テスト日本語

i.e. the subject contains raw iso-2022-jp which is NOT base64 encoded
like it should be, therefore I see only garbage in the *Summary*
buffer.

Mails to <fabian@nair.go.jp> or <mike.fabian@gmx.de> do leave my
machine, are relayed by the SMTP-server of my ISP and finally come
back to me.

Is this a Problem with Pgnus or do I have to search somewhere else? 
Why does it work for locally delivered mail?

Mike

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In der Neckarhelle 81, D-69118 Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen
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Re: Japanese subjects?

[Mike Fabian]

Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de> writes:

> I have a problem with writing Japanese subjects.
> [...] 
> i.e. the subject contains raw iso-2022-jp which is NOT base64 encoded
> like it should be, therefore I see only garbage in the *Summary*
> buffer.
> [...] 
> Is this a Problem with Pgnus or do I have to search somewhere else? 
> Why does it work for locally delivered mail?

I found the cause of this problem. It has nothing to do with Pgnus.

It was my fault, the reason was that I didn't have the option

    `no mimedecode'

in my `.fetchmailrc'. This option is on by default in the latest
version of fetchmail, but I was using a somewhat older version.

Without this option fetchmail will decode MIME-encoded header into
8-bit data. Then of course Pgnus can't know anymore what character-set
to use  for displaying the header.

Sorry if I caused confusion.

Mike

-- 
Mike Fabian <fabian@mpia-hd.mpg.de>
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Koenigsstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg
Telephone: +49(0)6221/528216