sendmail mode quoting bug fix.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 1d225b9cd81..bda91a16883 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2012-03-10  Richard Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
 
+        * mail/sendmail.el (mail-encode-header):
+        Set rfc2047-encode-encoded-words.
+
         * mail/mail-utils.el (mail-quote-printable): Quote multibyte chars.
 
         * mail/rmail.el (rmail-buffers-swapped-p): Don't assume dead
diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
index 91e0b183a68..f4dfcfcf647 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
@@ -1085,7 +1085,9 @@ Return non-nil if and only if some part of the header is encoded."
                 (cons selected mm-coding-system-priorities)
               mm-coding-system-priorities))
            (tick (buffer-chars-modified-tick))
-           (rfc2047-encode-encoded-words nil))
+           ;; rms: this proved necessary, but I don't recall why.
+           ;; Can anyone determine why, and state it here?
+           (rfc2047-encode-encoded-words t))
       (rfc2047-encode-message-header)
       (= tick (buffer-chars-modified-tick)))))