I have a setup with three different accounts on macos, switching works e.g. with the context setup and I am able to send emails with each one of them. An account is a ms exchange account which uses davmail, the other is a gmail account and the third a gmx. Though only with the davmail account I am able to read the mails correctly in the macos mail.app.
When sending with the two other accounts I have a wrong display of german umlaute, e.g.
Gau=C3=9Fstra=C3=9Fe
where it should be
Gaußstraße
in addition the mime-version info is sent and shown by the mail.app as well, e.g. see below (where you also can see that the signature separator is written as "--=20":
--text follows this line--
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
--=20
Update: I also get
--text follows this line--
Vielen Dank und viele =?utf-8?B?R3LDvMOfZSE=?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
when it should say:
Vielen Dank und viele Grüße
No, I see a different charset!? Not sure, if this is relevant...
Do you have an idea what is going wrong? This is the setting which I have for gmail
(smtpmail-starttls-credentials . (("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil)))
(smtpmail-auth-credentials . (expand-file-name "~/.authinfo.gpg"))
(smtpmail-default-smtp-server . "smtp.gmail.com")
(smtpmail-smtp-server . "smtp.gmail.com")
(smtpmail-smtp-service . 587)
(smtpmail-stream-type . starttls)
(mu4e-sent-messages-behavior . delete)
Do you need more information about the setup for each account?
Here is an update and further information:
- I am using spacemacs with emacs 28.0.50 (and I tested it with 27) mu 1.4.13 on macos
Using gnus the sending works fine with these settings in .gnus.el
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
This short settings does not result in correct mails with mu4e.
When looking in the drafts folder with the mail.app client on my gmail account, I see the message in a correct way.
I tried also plenty of other things for setting the encoding... the problem is however that I do not not know in which direction I have to look further
e.g. I tried something like:
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8-unix)
(setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-latin-1 utf-8))
and similar settings without success.
Next Update using msmtp:
I was testing the sending with msmtp for all three accounts using mu4e and the context setup. Sending itself works again, but only the davmail account sends correct emails. The other accounts (one is gmail) results in the same problem as above.
And testing a plain file with msmtp like this
cat test.mail | msmtp -a default <username>@domain.com
with something like
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: A test
Vielen Dank und viele Grüße
works great with gmail as well... but the buffer from mu4e gets sent somehow in a wrong way!?
The plain file which I sent in a correct way was encoded as 'unix'; the standard way which mu4e seems to use is 'utf-8' (at least this is chown in the modeline); chaning it to 'unix' as well does not result in a correct mail!?
msmtp with mutt
Tested it and it works as well; just for the record; there I have set:
set send_charset = "utf-8:iso-8859-1:us-ascii"
set charset = "utf-8"
