On 6 Feb 2009 at 8:03, Ben Scott wrote: > Angus Scott-Fleming, you keep sending messages to this list where the > entire message body is encoded in MIME BASE64, but the message headers don't > specify a BASE64 encoding, so the encoded data is displayed rather than the > decoded text. Example:
WRT to the Base64-encoded messages, I got a reply from the author of Pegasus Mail, the key phrase of which is "Pegasus Mail *never* uses Base64 on message bodies". He thinks Lyris is having a problem re-encoding the message. I'm CCing Ben off-list on this so he will have a copy sent directly to him to compare to the Lyris message. Ben, if you wouldn't mind reporting back that would be a Good Thing. Just had an idea, if it's worth tracking down: I can also do the same (CC a list admin off-list) with a message that is known to trigger the encoding issue so we can determine if it is Lyris that is doing this. Stu or Alex, can we do this please? ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- On 9 Feb 2009 at 23:23, Angus S-F wrote: > Run into a strange situation on the NT System Admin list at Sunbelt Software. > It seems that some of my replies -- not all -- have been showing up as > follows: A couple of things here. Firstly, based on what I know about the way Pegasus Mail generates messages, I'm 99% sure you'll find that this is the Lyris software getting a re-encoding operation rather wrong. ... Your message would have gone out with quoted-printable encoding (Pegasus Mail *never* uses Base64 on message bodies, no matter how many accented characters there might be, simply because it makes the body completely non-human- readable). It looks as though something about that wasn't to Lyris's liking, so it re-armoured it but neglected to change the content-type header. Cheers! -- David -- ------------------ David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail ---------------------- Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand | e-mail: [email protected] Phone: +64 3 453-6880 | Fax: +64 3 453-6612 Newspaper misprints from around the world: "After the boat had been secured above the wrecked galleon the apparatus was set in motion by the captain's 18-year old daughter, Veronica. Within an hour, she was yielding her treasure to the excited crew." --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
