You are almost doing it right. Your biggest problem is that MIME::Words does not work exactly as needed.

First of all, I assume you are dealing with character strings, not byte strings (read perluniintro and perlunicode for details). In that case, you should really use Encode::encode on your strings before passing them to MIME::Words::encode_mimeword.

The problem with the from and to fields (yes, they'll both get messed up) is that RFC-1522 poses some constraint on the encoding of the various parts. The easiest way to get near what the RFC requires is to use MIME::Words::encode_mimewords:

$smtp->datasend( "To: " . MIME::Words::encode_mimewords(Encode::encode
+('utf-8',$self->to()), Encoding => 'Q', Charset=> 'utf-8') . "\n" );

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This way I was able to send myself a message with all headers containing japanese characters.

On a sidenote: the RFC requires each encoded "word" to be less than 75 octects. Keep this in mind when encoding long subject lines.

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In reply to Re: Sending UTF-8 e-mail by dakkar
in thread Sending UTF-8 e-mail by angus_w_chan

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