Re: Emacsen MUA

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org> wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
> 
> > True.  I didn't know it was required.  MH-E gave the message to MH
> > send, which gave it to postfix.  Who should be responsible for adding
> > the MIME header in that case?
> 
> MH-E, I think; MH unsurprisingly seems to factor MIME handling out
> into separate tools.  (Also, MH-E can look at Emacs's settings,
> whereas MH would only be able to guess based on the user's locale.)

Makes senses.  I'll see if gnus does something sensible that we can use.
Otherwise, we could detect the charset/encoding used in the current
buffer and use that in the header, e.g.

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

It's on my MH-E ToDo list now.  :-)

Peter