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|    Oli to Flavio Bessa    |
|    Error when posting    |
|    23 Feb 22 15:47:35    |
      REPLY: 4:801/188 4925fcba       MSGID: 2:280/464.47 62164907       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: 0100       TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7       Flavio wrote (2022-02-22):               FB> On 21 Feb 2022, Tommi Koivula said the following...               TK>> All I did was to add these lines:               TK>> read UTF-8 utf-8        TK>> post utf-8 UTF-8                      TK>> Which Thunderbird are you using? The newest TB seems to always post        TK>> messages in utf-8. Annoying...               FB> Thanks, I will give it a try.              That should work. I have the same configuration and no problems with posting       UTF-8 messages.               FB> Exactly. That started to happen after the latest TB upgrade for        FB> Mac.               FB> I checked other news clients and it worked fine...              Looks like this 'feature' has been introduced by Firefox:              https://old.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ps6gxp/is_text_enc       ding_options_gone/              I haven't used the newer Thunderbird versions. Does it always use UTF-8 even       if the text in the mail is only 7-bit ASCII?               * Origin: They're made out of meat (2:280/464.47)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 80/1 90/1 92/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/131 124/5016 129/330 331 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 317 424 426 428 452       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 113 812 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 5058/104       PATH: 280/464 301/1 229/426           |
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