send-email: add an auto option for transfer encoding

For most patches, using a transfer encoding of 8bit provides good
compatibility with most servers and makes it as easy as possible to view
patches.  However, there are some patches for which 8bit is not a valid
encoding: RFC 5322 specifies that a message must not have lines
exceeding 998 octets.

Add a transfer encoding value, auto, which indicates that a patch should
use 8bit where allowed and quoted-printable otherwise.  Choose
quoted-printable instead of base64, since base64-encoded plain text is
treated as suspicious by some spam filters.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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