bug#38818: jidanni's mail headers not perfect?!

[Eli Zaretskii]

On January 6, 2020 11:56:18 AM GMT+02:00, Pieter van Oostrum 
<pieter-l@vanoostrum.org> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> OK, then I probably didn't understand you.
> You asked about =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?=
> "Why do you think this arrives intact to people's MUA?"
> 
> So I thought you meant there is something wrong with that part.
> Apparently you did not mean that. So what did you mean? Dan seems to
> want that part (some CJK characters) to show up in the email, and it
> does for me. And that is how it should be.

I'm saying that if the original mail had some suitable MIME charset in its 
headers, the problem would be less likely to happen.  Because email messages 
that rely on implicit encoding specifications are more likely to hit subtle 
problems.

And btw, no one can rely on having the exact same encoded name in response 
email, MUA and MTA are free to change the representation at will, as long as 
the content is transferred without losses.