mm-body-charset-encoding-alist ¶Mapping from MIME charset to encoding to use. This variable is usually used except, e.g., when other requirements force a specific encoding (digitally signed messages require 7bit encodings). The default is
((iso-2022-jp . 7bit) (iso-2022-jp-2 . 7bit) (utf-16 . base64) (utf-16be . base64) (utf-16le . base64))
As an example, if you do not want to have ISO-8859-1 characters
quoted-printable encoded, you may add (iso-8859-1 . 8bit) to
this variable. You can override this setting on a per-message basis
by using the encoding MML tag (see MML Definition).
mm-coding-system-priorities ¶Prioritize coding systems to use for outgoing messages. The default
is nil, which means to use the defaults in Emacs, but is
(iso-8859-1 iso-2022-jp utf-8) when running Emacs in the Japanese
language environment. It is a list of coding system symbols (aliases of
coding systems are also allowed, use M-x describe-coding-system to
make sure you are specifying correct coding system names). For example,
if you have configured Emacs to prefer UTF-8, but wish that outgoing
messages should be sent in ISO-8859-1 if possible, you can set this
variable to (iso-8859-1). You can override this setting on a
per-message basis by using the charset MML tag
(see MML Definition).
As different hierarchies prefer different charsets, you may want to set
mm-coding-system-priorities according to the hierarchy in Gnus.
Here’s an example:
(add-to-list 'gnus-newsgroup-variables 'mm-coding-system-priorities)
(setq gnus-parameters
(append
;; Some charsets are just examples!
'(("^cn\\." ;; Chinese
(mm-coding-system-priorities
'(iso-8859-1 cn-big5 chinese-iso-7bit utf-8)))
("^cz\\.\\|^pl\\." ;; Central and Eastern European
(mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-8859-2 utf-8)))
("^de\\." ;; German language
(mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-8859-1 iso-8859-15 utf-8)))
("^fr\\." ;; French
(mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-8859-15 iso-8859-1 utf-8)))
("^fj\\." ;; Japanese
(mm-coding-system-priorities
'(iso-8859-1 iso-2022-jp utf-8)))
("^ru\\." ;; Cyrillic
(mm-coding-system-priorities
'(koi8-r iso-8859-5 iso-8859-1 utf-8))))
gnus-parameters))
mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults ¶Mapping from MIME types to encoding to use. This variable is usually
used except, e.g., when other requirements force a safer encoding
(digitally signed messages require 7bit encoding). Besides the normal
MIME encodings, qp-or-base64 may be used to indicate that for
each case the most efficient of quoted-printable and base64 should be
used.
qp-or-base64 has another effect. It will fold long lines so that
MIME parts may not be broken by MTA. So do quoted-printable and
base64.
Note that it affects body encoding only when a part is a raw forwarded
message (which will be made by gnus-summary-mail-forward with the
arg 2 for example) or is neither the ‘text/*’ type nor the
‘message/*’ type. Even though in those cases, you can override
this setting on a per-message basis by using the encoding
MML tag (see MML Definition).
mm-use-ultra-safe-encoding ¶When this is non-nil, it means that textual parts are encoded as
quoted-printable if they contain lines longer than 76 characters or
starting with "From " in the body. Non-7bit encodings (8bit, binary)
are generally disallowed. This reduce the probability that a non-8bit
clean MTA or MDA changes the message. This should never be set
directly, but bound by other functions when necessary (e.g., when
encoding messages that are to be digitally signed).