Package: heirloom-mailx Version: 12.4-1.1+b1 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
When piping text into heirloom-mailx, it fails to specify the charset used with the From: line if the name inherited from /etc/passwd is in UTF-8. cat file | mail -s "some subject" u...@domain.ltd q-funk:x:1000:1000:Martin-Éric Racine,,,:/home/q-funk:/bin/bash Setting "set sendcharsets=utf-8" only seems to affect the MIME declaration that appears in the message headers: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit However, it does not solve the above issue: Message-Id: <1252199465.516755.6377.nullmai...@iki.fi> From: Martin-?ric Racine <q-f...@iki.fi> Yet, we see that: $ file /etc/passwd /etc/passwd: UTF-8 Unicode text Is there something I'm missing? - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-020630-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages heirloom-mailx depends on: ii base-files 5.0.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-4 SSL shared libraries heirloom-mailx recommends no packages. Versions of packages heirloom-mailx suggests: ii nullmailer [mail-transport-ag 1:1.04-1.1 simple relay-only mail transport a - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqjD5EACgkQeXr56x4Muc3csgCfTAG3dc6f83Va4obf7AxgCKvv zicAn2ZsQes2yjLcRJipIsz3Hkhfywv0 =N5oH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org