Ok. I looked at my two servers, and realized the japanese server
was running the default sendmail SMTP listener. No matter how
many patches I applied to AOLserver or whatever uuencoding
procedure I used, my mailer was still wrecking the japanese
encoded subject. My own personal machine, running the qmail
SMTP listener, worked fine. So, I relayed through my box running
qmail, and everything worked fine....even without encoding the
subject in the manner henry describes in his page on sending
japanese email linked from http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/hqm.
Thus, the problem is sendmail, not AOLserver.
lessons learned:
- sendmail sucks
- suntory boss "HG" blend canned coffee causes less of a
caffiene hangover than the standard blend
- bill by the hour, not by the project
