On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:34:53AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > This is missing a Content-Transfer-Encoding. I think the default is the > traditional 7-bit ascii encoding, but your body has characters with the > high-bit set (your UTF-8 bullet). > > Try adding: > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > I haven't seen this before, but I do recall that vger's MTA is very > picky about this and wants to rewrite transfer-encodings, so it seems > plausible. Technically, I think you'd also need a: MIME-Version: 1.0 header. That being said, I just peeked at the send-email code and it looks like we try to add in these headers as necessary. It's possible there's a bug, though. What does "git send-email --dry-run" say is in the headers it sends out? -Peff