Email subject MIME encoding in Perl.

Question

I am trying to send an email with non-ASCII characters in the subject line under Perl 5.8.5. My simple example uses the word \"Änderungen\" (German umlaut), but instead of corre

Answer 1

In your question, you declared:

my $subject_encoded = encode("MIME-Q", $subject);

But you didn't use it later.

print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";

should be:

print MAIL "Subject: $subject_encoded\n\n";