ss="hdlist1">--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64)</dt>
<dd>
<p>Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP.
7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message.  quoted-printable
can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
harder to inspect manually.  base64 is even more fool proof, but also
even more opaque.  Default is the value of the <em>sendemail.transf