On 19-Sep-00, Tony Rolfe wrote:
>
> I knew there was one other thing...
>
> When friends with PC's send a message with an attachment, all is well.
>
> If they forward a message which had a jpeg or similar attached, the
> jpeg (or whatever) becomes embedded in the text and all I get is 200K
> of interpretted hex instead of an attachment.
That is all an attachment ever is. There is really no such thing as
attachment in email, the way Fidonet has it. The only way a file can
be sent by email is as text in the message. Email clients interpret
the attachment from the header and boundaries in the email.
> Is there anything I can do to rebuild this into a JPEG or do I have to
> go to my
Save it as raw text and try using base64decoder. If that doesn't work,
try UUXT. It's not likely that anyone is still using UUencoded, but if
they are that would catch a lot of people unprepared.
Read the header on the encoded part and see what it says.
Base64 has "begin 644" and UUe has UU something. I've never received
a UUencoded mail with YAM so I don't know if it is set to handle it.
Forward it to me if you can't get anywhere--I used email gated through
Fidonet for years and I had to decode attachments manually, so I'm
used to it. Back in those days, it seemed perfectly normal to have
400 lines of Greek with no spaces on screen. Fido software had no
understanding of MIME at all.
> PC owning friends and admit that the Amiga can't cope with
> their messages, so could they reattach the message?
Yam and all other Amiga email clients cope perfectly with attachments.
The email is clearly faulty, if YAM is not showing it as an
attachment. I regularly receive attachments from PC
users, and have never had a failure to decode and view. There is some
weirdo windoze crap called nsnail jpeg which I believe does not work in
YAM, but I have never seen one.
> Can't you just hear them gloating already?
They have stuffed up. YAM does everything a mail client should, and
does it better than OE.
As an experiment, attach a jpeg to a mail you are sending, then view
it as raw format. You'll see what it should look like. Also, double
click on it in YAM to make sure it displays. If you use something
better than Multiview, it should display on YAM's screen.
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