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I have a new 6230i with a build in Java mail-client, but that encodes
all send mail with "base64" encoding (and UTF-8 charset, even if
ISO-8859-1 is standard in Europe) and then some people can't read it.
It looks something like this in a client without "base64" support:

=?UTF-8?B?VGVzdA==?
Fra: TGFycy1FcmlrIMOYc3RlcnVk <larse@chello.no>

VGVzdA0KLS0gCiBMYXJzLUVyaWsgIC0gIGh0dHA6Ly9ob21lLmNoZWxsby5uby9+bGFyc2Uv

In a e-mail program with "base64" support it looks like this:

From: "Lars-Erik Østerud" <larse@chello.no>
Subject: Test
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64

Test
--
Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/

Not only does the message take more bytes, it's unreadable on some
mail-programs, and it's UTF-8. You can change to ISO-8859-1, but that
is not remembered, so the next mail is send as UTF-8 again :-(

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Lars-Erik - http://home.chello.no/~larse/ - ICQ 7297605
WinXP, Asus P4PE, 2.53 GHz, Asus V8420 (Ti4200), SB-Live!


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