Re: [bug-mailutils] mail vs. Russian

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gentlemen, what kind of mail could cause mail (GNU Mailutils 0.4.1) to
> stop at 7 bytes?

Mailutils will not attempt to decode RFC 2047 headers if the charset
used by the console is unknown. The charset is determined using the
following rules:

1) If either $sysconfdir/mail.rc or ~/.mailrc contain
   `set charset=CHARSET', then this value is used, unless CHARSET is
   the string "auto", in which case the step 2 is used.

2) If the charset is not explicitely specified, mailutils attempts to
   deduce it from the values of environment variable LC_ALL or, if it
   is not set, LANG. For exact rules which are used, see the file
   mailbox/locale.c.


Regards,
Sergey