Subject: 8 bit characters, and pgp signing ?

From: Goran Svensson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 13:51:03 +0100 (NFT)

Hi folks.
Beeing a newbie, I have 2 questions. They may FAQs, if so flame me (we
need some warmening up here in Sweden :-).

1) In out native language, we use some 8bit characters (åäö).
   Entering them in a mail is no problem, but after I have sent the mail
   the characters are translated. How do I get rid of this translation ?
   My mailers at the other end can handle 8bit characters, but not the
   encoded characters.

2) How do I add a post-processing filter, which takes to *BODY* of the
   mail after I have sent it and process it. (i.e. How do I add
   automatic pgp signing of my messages ?)

BTW, Pine is a great product (If I flatter you, I might get more and 
friendlier responses)

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From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:59:47 +0100

>    the characters are translated. How do I get rid of this translation ?

You're supposed to be happy about it.

>    My mailers at the other end can handle 8bit characters, but not the

The mailer at the other end may well be 8bit-clean, but how about the
servers that transport the message?  Many of them tend to cripple
your accents into something unrecognizable.

The MIME specification allows for the translation between different
encodings so ideally it's up to your transport software to recode to
8bit if it's confident.

You and your correspondents should use procmail to decode your letters:

	: fbw
	^Content-Transfer-Encoding:.*quoted-printable
	| mmencode -u -q
	: afhw
	| formail -I 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'

>    automatic pgp signing of my messages ?)

I don't know if the newest Pine has an option for specifying your own
sendmail-program.  The old version I still have here does not.