Email -> Org-mode: charset problem

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

Hi!

Is there somebody who managed to develop an email to Org-mode bridge
without having charset problems? (No, I do not use Emacs as a
MUA[4])

    Disclaimer: This is not directly related to Org-mode but I guess
    there are people here with the very same problem.

I am using a procmail[1] with an entry to forward emails containing
a keyword in the subject into my inbox.org (where also MobileOrg[2]
entries are written to).

This is quite handy since some tasks arrive at emails and I want to
capture this everywhere (smartphone, webmail, ...) using a simply
email forward.

Unfortunately I get weird stuff like uuencoded things, UTF-8 in
ASCII, ... which messes up my inbox.org and I am not able to read it
afterwards.[5]

I guess this is because procmail and formail[3] – the tools I am
using to extract mail infos to append to the org-file – are
7-bit-only or similar.

If this is the case, I guess I'll have to find a different approach
for this purpose.

Any ideas?

  1. http://www.procmail.org/
  2. https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki/
  3. http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/formail1.html
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_user_agent
  5. I can give examples if you want.
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Karl Voit