Subject: Re: [PATCH] post-receive-email: Set content-type and encoding in generated mail

From: Teemu Likonen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:00:39 +0300

On 2009-07-29 15:48 (+0200), Fabian Emmes wrote:

> Add proper content-type header to mails generated by post-receive-email, as
> suggested by Alexander Gerasiov in
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email-masked]/msg588535.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Emmes <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> index 2a66063..0c50155 100755
> --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ generate_email_header()
>  	cat <<-EOF
>  	To: $recipients
>  	Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe
> +	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>  	X-Git-Refname: $refname
>  	X-Git-Reftype: $refname_type
>  	X-Git-Oldrev: $oldrev

That's not complete. You need all these:

    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit