[rt-users] quoted-printable vs 8bit encoding

[Jeff Beaird]

We are running RT 3.4.1 using the request-tracker3.4 package for debian 
sarge, and recently got bitten by the "8-bit" bug that was fixed in 
3.4.2.  Rather than upgrade all sorts of things on the system in order 
to get to 3.4.4, I modified SendEmail.pm so that it would be sending 
mail with "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" instead of "8-bit".

Some of the mail we receive is fed by a form which uses Mail::Sendmail. 
  Mail::Sendmail sends mail, by default, encoded as quoted-printable. 
This can be overridden, according to the documentation for Mail::Sendmail.

The curious thing is that when we receive mail from Mail::Sendmail, 
encoded as "quoted-printable", RT responds to it with 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8-bit", instead of "8bit".  I have grepped 
through the code for 8bit, 8-bit, etc., in an attempt to find why this 
might be, but am not coming up with any good answers.

Any idea what might be going on?

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Beaird
Systems and Technological Services
Buswell Memorial Library
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL