24-Dec-02 at 09:43, Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Simon White  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >24-Dec-02 at 00:06, Roy Hooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> >>
> >> begin 644 freeradius-mod_sql_authenticate.patch
> >> M+2TM(&9R965R861I=7,M,"XX+C$N;W)I9R]D;V,O<FQM7W-Q;`E7960@3F]V
> >> M(#$S(#$Q.C`W.C4Q(#(P,#(**RLK(&9R965R861I=7,M,"XX+C$O9&]C+W)L
> >
> >Did Outlook Express 6 mung this attachment into binary or something?
> >It's not MIME compliant as far as my MUA is concerned, anyway...
> 
> That's uuencode, a standard from the eighties that nobody really
> uses anymore .. 

Why is OE6 using it? Jeez, I haven't seen uuencode for so long that I
didn't recognise it as such...

> except Outlook has still support for it. 

So do many other MUAs but they only use it to *read* incoming mail !

> Worse,
> any line in the body of the message that starts with 'begin  ' makes
> outlook think there's an attachment there. Which can be a problem
> if you use it by accident.
> 
> Microsoft simply tells you to scrap the word "begin" from the
> English language. Really, see:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q265230

OMG!

WORKAROUND
To workaround this problem:

    * Do not start messages with the word "begin" followed by two
    * spaces.
    * Use only one space between the word "begin" and the following
    * data.
    * Capitalize the word "begin" so that it is reads "Begin."
    * Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."

Merry Christmas ! Commence your festivities ;-)

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