On 30 Nov 2011, at 2:24 pm, Winston Weinmann wrote:

>> If you view the full headers for one of the "garbled" examples sent back
>> to you by your correspondent, what mail client ("X-Mailer: XXXX") and
>> text encoding ("Content-type: text/*; charset=XXXX") are used in his message?
> 
> Here's what the response had:
> 
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
> 
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>       boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003D_01CC8B3C.19364F30"

Hmm. That doesn't answer my question, because the "Content-type: text" header 
will be in one of the encapsulated MIME parts later in the message.  
Unfortunately, PowerMail decomposes multipart MIME messages for internal 
storage, so there's no way to reliably examine the raw message source any more. 
 (If you receive another such message in the future, you could examine it e.g. 
using Mail.app.)

(Pardon my delay following up here.  In any case, my original suspicion is that 
the recipient's client -- Outlook 11, I guess -- is mis-handling the message on 
receipt.  But I might be wrong.)

-b

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