RE: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Sims
J.D. Bronson wrote: I really need some advice/help with this or I will have to stop using mimedefang. I dont understand why this is happening and whats causing it? After I installed 2.40 (first time installer)...I am now seeing (using some email clients) text attachments that are the exact

RE: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, J.D. Bronson wrote: Here is what is in /var/mail BEFORE the user pop's the email. It shows as an attachment (which consists of the whole message in a txt file) when using Pegasus Email. My client (Eudora) does not show this. I have only mangled personal information in

RE: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, J.D. Bronson wrote: So what is MIMEDefang doing that is making Pegasus unhappy? any idea? Creating a multipart/mixed MIME message with a single plain/text part. No other mail reader that I'm aware of has difficulties with this. Support from Pegasus is pathetic at best :(

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread Joseph Brennan
After I installed 2.40 (first time installer)...I am now seeing (using some email clients) text attachments that are the exact same thing as in the body of the email! - My email client (Eudora) does not show this, but Pegasus does. There is actually no such thing as an attachment. That's a

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Joseph Brennan wrote: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--=_1079446477-2144-42 ...but it actually only had one part, which was text/plain. MIMEDefang does that. Whenever data is out of standard like this, you can get undefined results, like a message

Re: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread Joseph Brennan
According to RFC 1341: The use of the multipart Content-Type with only a single body part may be useful in certain contexts, and is explicitly permitted. Well... you learn something new every day! Thanks Joseph Brennan Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)

RE: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 09:01 AM 03/16/2004, you wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, J.D. Bronson wrote: So what is MIMEDefang doing that is making Pegasus unhappy? any idea? Creating a multipart/mixed MIME message with a single plain/text part. No other mail reader that I'm aware of has difficulties with this. Support

RE: [Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

2004-03-16 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 16 Mar 2004 at 8:20, J.D. Bronson wrote: At 07:47 AM 03/16/2004, you wrote: I've heard of this happening with Outlook, but it's a client bug that is usually fixed by a restart. Do you have access to the raw (undecoded) message source? If so, can you post (or provide a link to) a (small)