Bug#400741: exim4: lack of Content-Type in quoted mail from <> breaks utf-8

Robert Millan [ackstorm] rmillan at ackstorm.es
Wed Nov 29 09:32:47 UTC 2006


On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 03:37:02PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> tags #400741 upstream
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:51:11PM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> > When <> generates a bounce, it quotes the original message, but its Content-Type
> > header isn't propagated.  This leads to utf-8/etc characters not being properly
> > rendered by MUAs.
> 
> This is probably caused by exim being MIME agnostic. Unlikely that
> upstream is going to fix this any time soon.

Do you think this behaviour is intentional (e.g. this belongs in MUA), or just
that it's not a priority for them?

> As you're a member of the team, please report this to Upstream's
> bugzilla yourself and mark this bug as appropriately forwarded.

Will do.

-- 
Robert Millan

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