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[Uday Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 430521 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430521

VM 7.19 is just too old.  Please use the latest version of VM available
on your system.  Is it Debian?  We really recommend the 8.1.x releases.
You can download them from the vm front page here on launchpad.

Cheers,
Uday Reddy
(VM development team)

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vm: sends garbled non-ASCII in default setup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490018
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: New
Status in “vm” package in Debian: Confirmed

Bug description:
Hi,

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        This was reported by a Debian user.

        In VM's default setup messages containing non-ASCII characters
 are sent as "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp".  They look
 garbled in every MUA (Gnus, VM, Rmail, Icedove) I've tried.  If an
 iso-2022 encoding is used at all, at least "Content-Type: text/plain;
 charset=iso-2022-7bit" should be used, which would make the messages
 readable in Emacs-based MUAs.

        Note that this applies to messages sent in VM under emacs22,
 with emacs-snapshot the situation is even worse: all non-ASCII
 characters silently disappear when the message is sent!

        This can be worked around by setting
 vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset to "utf-8" which makes VM send
 messages as "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8", although the
 docstring for vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset wrongly claims that this
 variable has no effect.

        manoj