Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Michael Fox
> -Original Message- > } Unfortunately, it's an amateur radio BBS written in the 80s that > > Which app is it? JNOS http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2/ > } only understands plain text. It was pretty advanced in its time > > Something this old may not understand

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread John Nemeth
On Oct 11, 11:54pm, "Michael Fox" wrote: } } > -Original Message- } > If the old client that you are accommodating is running on (or even just } > displaying on) a reasonably modern OS, there's a strong chance that } > you'll actually do better for readability by using UTF-8 as the } >

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Michael Fox
> -Original Message- > But you have a tool here that is flexible enough to do it. Yes, indeed. > I suppose you want to take the text/plain MIME part and remove any > other parts. Others would be just an HTML alternative or something > that is not text. Yup. And I'm doing that

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Michael Fox
> -Original Message- > I won't give the actual Perl code, but here's a basic sketch, completely > untested. I really have no idea whether or not this will work, but I > think the basic approach is correct. :) Thanks Dianne. That definitely points me in the right direction. Much

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Joseph Brennan
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Michael Fox wrote: >> -Original Message- >> >> >Unfortunately, it's an amateur radio BBS written in the 80s that only >> understands plain text. >> > It's still extremely useful and widely used, especially in emergency >> comms

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:20:04 -0400 Dianne Skoll wrote: > # non-recursive case: Single part. > # If $in_entity is base-64 encoded, make a new $new_entity > # that is qp-encoded and call $out_entity->attach($new_entity) > # and return 1 to indicate

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 06:53:33 -0700 "Michael Fox" wrote: > While I appreciate everyone's attempt to warn me that "there be > dragons", the facts are that the client is what it is, it serves > hundreds of people (in my location alone), and the problem needs > solving. OK. You

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Frank Doepper
Am 11.10.17 um 23:54 schrieb Michael Fox: > Unfortunately, it's an amateur radio BBS written in the 80s that only > understands plain text. It was pretty advanced in its time in that it > uses SMTP internally. But no MIME, no UTF-8, etc. It's still extremely > useful and widely used,

Re: [Mimedefang] base64 to quoted-printable

2017-10-13 Thread Michael Fox
> -Original Message- > > >Unfortunately, it's an amateur radio BBS written in the 80s that only > understands plain text. > > It's still extremely useful and widely used, especially in emergency > comms > > So worthwhile investing some cash and getting it updated so that it can > cope