Python's email module - problem with umlauts in some email clients

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nico Grubert wrote:

> + On a solaris machine running thunderbird 1.5.0.8 and on a macintosh
>   machine running eudora umlauts are *not* displayed properly.
>   The email header does not contain any "Content-type". If I manually
>   switch the email client's character encoding to "Unicode (UTF-8)", the
>   umlauts are displayed properly. Therefore, I guess it has something to
>   do with the missing "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"
>   information in the email header.
>
> Any idea why the "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" is missing?

a misconfigured mail transfer agent ?

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