On 2013-11-14, Dominik Psenner wrote: >> I'm not sure whether setting the encoding to UTF8 triggers some sort of >> different handling inside of the framweork's SMTP code even if the test >> was pure ASCII. If it doesn't, then I'm fine with UTF8.
> and checking a few of my Gmail's mails it seems they default to UTF8. I've > just spammed test messages, this is the code: OK, looks as if the main difference was UTF8 yields base64 encoding while ASCII yields quoted printable. In general any MUA should be able to deal with either and the difference likely is no big deal. I can live with keeping the default at UTF8. Stefan