From 84bc861ea542c95bedf07c317f793c9ba0be3414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:41:09 +0000 Subject: Mimedecode now defaults to "off". svn path=/trunk/; revision=2632 --- fetchmail.man | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index b5238d32..b0ab6339 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ dropstatus \& T{ Strip Status and X-Mozilla-Status lines out of incoming mail T} mimedecode \& T{ -Convert quoted-printable to 8-bit in MIME messages (default) +Convert quoted-printable to 8-bit in MIME messages T} no keep -K T{ Delete seen messages from server (default) @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ no dropstatus \& T{ Don't drop Status headers (default) T} no mimedecode \& T{ -Don't convert quoted-printable to 8-bit in MIME messages +Don't convert quoted-printable to 8-bit in MIME messages (default) T} limit -l T{ Set message size limit @@ -1358,8 +1358,10 @@ listener (that includes all of the major MTAs like sendmail), then this will automatically convert quoted-printable message headers and data into 8-bit data, making it easier to understand when reading mail. If your e-mail programs know how to deal with MIME messages, -then this option is not needed (but does no harm). The mimedecode -option is on by default. +then this option is not needed. The mimedecode option is off by +default, because doing RFC2047 conversion on headers throws away +character-set information and can lead to bad results if the encoding +of the headers differs from the body encoding. .PP The `properties' option is an extension mechanism. It takes a string argument, which is ignored by fetchmail itself. The string argument may be -- cgit v1.2.3