How not to encode the To: field?

Peng Yu pengyu.ut at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 20:01:40 UTC 2019


In this email that I am sending, the "To:" field of the original
message should have "François" as is. Do you know why?

On 7/3/19, Kevin J. McCarthy <kevin at 8t8.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:27:02PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>>"François" in the "To:" filed will be encoded as
>>"=?utf-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lz?=". Is there a way to just use "François"
>>without being encoded in the "To:" field? Thanks.
>
> The rfc2047 encoding is required for non-ascii characters in certain
> parts of the message header.  There is no config variable to disable
> (only) it.
>
> That said, unsetting $charset will turn off the encoding process.
> However, it will also break many many other things in mutt.
>
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Regards,
Peng


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