Joy.

I think the code used to validate each line but it doesn't now, which
you can do with uuencoding.  Hopefully it isn't that hard to fix.

What sort of old pos software is still sending out uuencoded attachments
anyway?


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:04 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> welcome to the fun world of inline uuencode :-\
> 
> and yes, it's a bug. the code that auto-detects inline uuencode is
> apparently assuming the following text is also part of the uuencoded
> blurb because there is no 'end' line between the truncated uuencoded
> blurb and the rest of his message text.
> 
> this is why uuencode sucks.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 07:58, Michael-John Anthony wrote:
> > This is interesting, because when I view Alan's original email (Evo
> > 1.4.6), only get the first line - not the text below this garble:
> > 
> > "Scanned the archives but couldn't find anything. I would be surprised
> > if nobody else had this problem. Running V1.4.5 on deb testing."
> > 
> > See attached screenshot.
> > 
> > If I view via 'email source', then I get the whole message - otherwise,
> > it's truncated.
> > 
> > Sounds like a bug, ey? :)
> > 
> >    -- M.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 11:19, Alan Graham wrote:
> > > Whenever I Reply or Forward messages with Attachments it includes the
> > > file as text e.g.
> > > 
> > > begin 600 TrafficReport1.xls
> > > MT,\1X*&Q&N$`````````````````````/@`#`/[_"0`&```````````````%
> > > M`````0``````````$```8P````,```#^____``````````!V``````$``'D!
> > > M``#Y`0``____________________________________________________
> > > 
> > > Scanned the archives but couldn't find anything. I would be surprised if
> > > nobody else had this problem.
> > > 
> > > Running V1.4.5 on deb testing.
> > > 
> > > AG
> > > 
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