"Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> I got your message OK, but Pegasus Mail for DOS v3.50 showed it with
>>> an attachment which was 3 characters on each screen line and
>>> scrolling the attachment caused Pegasus to lock up requiring the old
>>> 3 finger salute. Did you have an attachment on the message? Did any
>>> other Pegasus users experience this? Thanks.
>>
>>Pegasus for W32 showed it as plain text, with the attachment. (I
>>think the same way it would with html email) however saving the
>>attachment was 0 bytes.
>
> Thanks, Ben, I hope somebody using a DOS version will comment also.
I'm no MIME expert, but I fooled around with this message a bit and
was able to decode the attachment manually with MUNPACK by changing,
Content-Type: message/rfc822 ;name=d3g03403.rfc
to
Content-Type: text/plain ;name=d3g03403.rfc
or
Content-Type: application/octet-stream ;name=d3g03403.rfc
Here is the error I got on the original message.
C:\TEXT>munpack.exe pete.msg
munpack: warning: ignoring invalid content encoding on message/rfc822
Did not find anything to unpack from pete.msg
Maybe older MIME implementations don't recognize the message/rfc822
content-type. I think this is a good example of why plain text in
e-mail works best.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada
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