Comment Re:Warning: Gmail IMAP support is ASCII only!!! (Score 1) 440
It turns out that the problem is not a character encoding problem. It is most likely to be a stupid coding error.
If a client retrieves the message with the '. FETCH n BODY[]' the characters are garbled.
If a client retrieves the message body with the '. FETCH n BODY[1]' the characters are intact.
In the first case, the message body is preceded by the (7-bit only) headers. The body is probably being treated as part of the header, and 8-bit characters are being filtered out.
If a client retrieves the message with the '. FETCH n BODY[]' the characters are garbled.
If a client retrieves the message body with the '. FETCH n BODY[1]' the characters are intact.
In the first case, the message body is preceded by the (7-bit only) headers. The body is probably being treated as part of the header, and 8-bit characters are being filtered out.
