Gnus and Microsoft Outlook
For a long time I have been having trouble sending mail to people using Microsoft’s mail clients Outlook and Outlook Express. I use Gnus, an all-singing, all-dancing news-mail-and-everything reader for use in Emacs.
The trouble was that if I included any 8-bit characters in the header of the message, Outlook would translate any 8-bit characters in the body of the message to an equal sign and two hex characters. This was intensely irritating, as I naturally assume that all free software is superior to commercial offerings, especially Microsofts.
The trouble is that the version of Gnus I’m using (v5.8.7) doesn’t encode the headers in quoted-printable, thus confusing Outlook no end.
The solutions is to place the following in your .emacs or .gnus file:
;; iso-8859-1 support for headers
(require 'gnus-msg)
(add-to-list 'gnus-group-posting-charset-alist
'(message-this-is-mail 'iso-8859-1 (iso-8859-1)))
Thanks to Kai Großjohann for this info.
Keywords: Gnus, gnus newsreader, GNU/Emacs, Emacs, Xemacs, MIME, mime, quoted-printable, transfer-encoding, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, mangled, 8-bit characters.
Note: this was originally posted on another server, I’m posting it here in an effort to clean up my online life.
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