Re: octal escapes with rmail

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt)
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:29:46 -0400
> 
>    P.S.  Would you please fix your MUA to not mangle non-ASCII names of
>    your correspondents?  They come out as octal escapes, for some
>    reason.  Maybe it's because your message doesn't state an encoding.
> 
> Thank you for the hint. I'm using rmail (and Emacs 26.3), maybe
> someone who knows rmail here can pitch in why it might be doing that
> or where to look.

I'm also using Rmail, so it is not Rmail that causes it, at least not
directly.  Most likely, it's some setting of coding-systems in your
init files.