[Email-SIG] encoding To headers

[Wichert Akkerman]

It's been a month since I posted this; can I safely assume nobody knows
the answer or is it just not possible? 

Wichert.

Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to use an 'internationaled' To-header but
> not succeeding so far. The basic documented approach does not work:
> 
> >>> mail["From"]=email.Header.Header(, "utf-8")
> >>> print mail.as_string()
> [...]
> From: =?utf-8?b?dMODwrhzdGk=?=
> 
> this is not allowed by the RFCs: the address must not be encoded. Using
> quoted-printable would fix this but I can not find any documentation
> as to how to do that.
> 
> All current documentation mentions that specifying encoders is
> deprecated, but without setting them the email module seems to insist on
> using base64 encoding.
> 
> Wichert.

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