On 25 Jun 00 at 11:53, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
>>> 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.
No argument from me about plain text for email. I was surprised when
I looked at the message header that the poster had used Arachne 1.62.
I fully expected that the message was the product of a Windoze email
program, rather than our beloved Arachne/Insight. It is still a
mystery to me.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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