John H Darrah wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Stelios Bounanos wrote:
>
> > > Even more annoying is to get reams of this stuff
> > >
> > >
> > > begin 600 winmail.dat
> > > M>)\^(AL0`0:0"``$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y`0```````#H``$(@`<`
> > > M&````$E032Y-:6-R;W-O9G0@36%I;"Y.;W1E`#$(`06``P`.````S@<$`!@`
> > [snip]
> >
> > Yes, what is this??
> >
> This is a uuencoded file. The strings above are sometimes referred to as
> radix-64. They are generated ...
Not to criticise--just a correction. A bit too detailed--and not
totally accurate. It isn't necessarily radix-64; look at the comment
in uuencode.c:
/* The two currently defined translation tables. The first is the
standard uuencoding, the second is base64 encoding. */
I haven't checked to see if the example above is radix-64 or standard,
and as it's not important to this issue, I'm not going to. A minor
nit, but we all like to cross and dot.
However, the reason I said it was too detailed is that I believe what
Stelios (and whoever originally posed this question--lost that one)
really cares about is WHY this garbage is showing up. This is usually
from a sender in Microsoft Mail; there's a checkbox in configuration to
specify what format outgoing E-mail should take. (It may also show up
from other MS-based mailers, esp. in browsers.) Among other options
are choices that specify HTML and/or RTF as well as plain text. Sorry
I can't tell you exactly what these option names are, or the precise
path to them--don't have a MM box here right now. But the keynote is
that you can't do anything about this--unless you can have the sender
change their configuration.
Cheers,
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