# Rejected mails are unreadable

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-mails-are-unreadable/392868
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [January 7, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-mails-are-unreadable/392868 "2026-01-07T12:09:19Z")
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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-mails-are-unreadable/392868/6 "2026-02-04T14:55:26Z")

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> [@lilydjwg](#):
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> The mails in the database are already in this damaged state.

I recently fixed this problem with:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37125](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37125)

> [@lilydjwg](#):
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> The `part` of a `Mail` has the correct `charset` information but somehow its `body` doesn’t get it and treat the bytes as `ASCII-8BIT`.

Is this email (assuming it’s one that did _not_ get mangled by Discourse) something you can pass to me so that we can investigate further and possibly use it as a test case?

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