status resolved · resolved 2026-02-22 · summary Continuation email generated after 5 iterations without retrieving target folder emails; included UTF-8 encoding error. · details {"cause": "Reached iteration limit without executing search_emails/add_emails to retrieve actual folder content.", "encoding_issue": "UTF-8 em dash was misinterpreted as Windows-1252/Latin-1 (mojibake) in outbound email."} · resolution {"encoding": "smtplib sending with explicit UTF-8 encoding. Confirmed clean in testing 2026-02-22.", "iteration_limit": "Phase-aware processing state machine (2026-02-22) gives the LLM explicit phase semantics. Per-state instruction notes guide the LLM to fetch relevant context before moving to composing/complete. Continuation emails now preserve current_phase so resumption starts from the correct state."}