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

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:32:47AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> 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?

I think that it is not a priority. exim bounces are suboptimal anyway,
since they are not automatically parseable DSNs.

Greetings
Marc

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