1. You sent this message to some recipients on a courier server
2. _Your_ email client generated incorrect MIME boundaries for this message
3. The recipient's courier received the message, but because it was corrupt
(anbigious MIME boundaries), it encapsulated the message into an attachment
for the recipient to deal with.
4. This type of error will not always occur - it occurs intermittently,
with your mail client, so you will see it sometimes, and not other times.
I don't think so. The message was sent to 4 recipients, the one who told me of the error message was on iquest.net, and I doubt they use Courier. Another was sent to Purdue University, one to an NOAA address, and one to a yahoo address. Besides, the error message came from my server....48 hours after it had already delivered the message....sent to one of the recipients, not to me.
5. Solution? Switch to a better mail client. Courier's behaviour here may
be annoying to you and your recipient, but it is defensive, to protect
courier's IMAP server and other IMAP clients from bad MIME.
Nope, I'm not switching from Eudora 5.1 on Windows 2000 Professional because Courier doesn't know how to handle something properly. Seems to me, if it's intermittent to begin with, what is it protecting? Why should something like this be left in the program? Like I said, I have sent this exact same message, simply changing the date and attachment, several times....without a problem (not all through Courier-MTA).
Not everything posted to this list can be solved by false assumptions and telling people it's a problem with their mail client. I posted that because I believe it to be a bug....Courier should either produce this error message full-time, or not at all.
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