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>     That probably means that the format should be "whatever was received".
>     I.e. the mail-reader should never encode anything (only the mail-sender
>     should do that).
> 
> It is impossible to display the message text without decoding it from
> whatever coding system it is encoded in.

I said it should never *en*code.  Obviously, it will have to decode
somewhere on the way between the mbox file and the display.


	Stefan