Update the default headers to include a Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit.

[dead/halcyon.git] / src / Mail.hs

diff --git a/src/Mail.hs b/src/Mail.hs
index c93a6cff2e9cc53e11e96e9b0e4c36f7733b17fd..03b7284665fa40b742cc6d36fa3a9209c2a6c838 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Mail.hs
+++ b/src/Mail.hs
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ module Mail
 where
 
 import Control.Concurrent
-import Control.Concurrent.MVar
 import Control.Exception (evaluate)
 import Data.List (intercalate)
 import System.Exit
 import System.Process
 import System.Time (CalendarTime(..), ClockTime, getClockTime, Month, toCalendarTime)
-import System.IO
+import System.IO (hClose, hGetContents, hPutStr)
+
 
 type Header = String
 
@@ -22,9 +22,13 @@ data Message = Message { headers :: [Header],
                          to      :: String }
              deriving (Eq)
 
+-- |The default headers attached to each message.
+-- The MIME junk is needed for UTF-8 to work properly.
+-- Note that your mail server should support the 8BITMIME extension.
 default_headers :: [Header]
 default_headers = ["MIME-Version: 1.0",
-                   "Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8"]
+                   "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8",
+                   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"]
 
 -- |Showing a message will print it in roughly RFC-compliant
 -- form. This form is sufficient for handing the message off to
@@ -122,9 +126,9 @@ sendmail message = do
   errm <- newEmptyMVar
   errs <- hGetContents errh
 
-  forkIO $ hPutStr inh (show message) >> hClose inh
-  forkIO $ evaluate (length outs) >> putMVar outm ()
-  forkIO $ evaluate (length errs) >> putMVar errm ()
+  _ <- forkIO $ hPutStr inh (show message) >> hClose inh
+  _ <- forkIO $ evaluate (length outs) >> putMVar outm ()
+  _ <- forkIO $ evaluate (length errs) >> putMVar errm ()
 
   readMVar outm
   readMVar errm