From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 5:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Attachments again ??
Hi Ken, On 4 March 2010 18:12, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: But those aren’t the problem messages are they? Didn’t we have messages that were encoded, but plain text was just being appended to the end? Negatory. It is Outlook treating a MIME section with an inline content-disposition as a MIME section with a content-disposition of attachment. Or am I mis-remembering? I think maybe you're thinking of the Outlook 2010 message bloat issue? No – not that. Versions of Outlook prior to 2007, had a problem with Quoted Printable (or Base64 or something) encoded messages where the message is encoded, and then some list server software just appended non-encoded plain text directly to the message body. So there would be some encoded message and then plain text appended (which couldn’t be decoded properly) and Outlook 2003 decided to display a blank message. Outlook 2007 would decode the message but the footer would be garbled (as Outlook 2007 would attempt to “decode” this as well, on a best effort basis). The result (in OL2007) was something like: Legitimate decoded message here Someone’s signature .+-wi0-+...@bm+v*ˊe֫rzm+v*k^}) .+-� 0�����j�q.+-� 0����ˊ�E��Kj�!i�b��b����ןj�m The last part was the list footer, attempted to be decoded by OL2007. OL2003 would just display a blank message Maybe I’m confusing the issue with some other list I’m on Cheers Ken
