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Conference abbott::mailworks-unix

Title:Mailworks-unix
Notice:V2.0.4 now available -- see Note 4.375
Moderator:TAMARA::NEUMAN::Neumann
Created:Wed Jun 02 1993
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1384
Total number of notes:5851

1347.0. "Eudora Interoperability problems" by TAMARA::NEUMAN::Neumann (Stan Neumann) Tue Feb 11 1997 12:07

Eudora Pro 3.0 has an option to UUEncode attachments.
Unfortunately, it does not do what *I* would expect it to do -
the message as a whole is still sent MIME encoded, but the
individual attachments are sent using a transfer encoding
of x-uuencode.  (This is a non-standard encoding for MIME,
and MailWorks does not support it.)

The effect is that when a sender uses this option, the
recipient sees an attachment that is apparently of the
right type (e.g. it appears to be a word document, and when
the TeamLinks user tries to read it, Word is invoked),
but the content is actually the raw UUEncode.

Alternatives for the receiving user:

1) Talk to the sender, and ask him/her to resend the message
   with either MIME or binhex selected as the encoding method
   under attachments in the Eudora client.

2) Save the file to disk and use a stand-alone UUDecoding utility
   to decode it.

3) If you are using TeamLinks for Windows, then with the message 
   open, use the menu entry "Decode Message" on the file menu.

-Stan
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1347.1"MIME encoded" ?VIRGIN::OTTSW-Support Switzerland.Wed Feb 12 1997 04:4878
hi Stan,

what do you mean with "MIME encoded" ?

with MAILbus 400 SMTP Gateway we have:

SMTP-Gateway_Module Characteristic_Attributes Binary_Encoder

     Use this attribute to specify the method that the SMTP Gateway
     uses to encode binary bodyparts in X.400 messages before passing
     them to sendmail.

     Set the value of the Binary Encoder attribute using the SMTP
     setup procedure in advanced mode. The Binary Encoder attribute
     can have one of the following values:

     o  Base64

        This is the setting that the SMTP Gateway is installed with.
        The base64 encoder is the encoder recommended by the MIME
        standard.

     o  Uuencode

        This setting changes the binary encoder to uuencode.


we will have then in the case of uuencode i.e.:

Return-Path: daemon
Received: by leming.zuo.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/11Mar96-0246PM)
        id AA21184; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:57:24 +0100
X400-Received: by /PRMD=DECRLE/ADMD=400NET/C=CH/;
        Relayed; 5 Nov 1996 12:57:17 +0100
X400-Received: by mta "OSF.MTA-LEMING" in /PRMD=DECRLE/ADMD=400NET/C=CH/;
        Relayed; 5 Nov 1996 11:57:21 +0000
Date: 5 Nov 1996 11:57:21 +0000
X400-Originator: [email protected]
X400-Mts-Identifier: [/PRMD=DECRLE/ADMD=400NET/C=CH/;847195041]
From: "Markus Ott" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: uuencode SMTP uuencode
Importance: normal
Autoforwarded: FALSE
Message-Id: <"RFC-822:327f2ba1:4*/RFC-822=(060)961105125717.20877(a)leming.zuo.d
ec.com(062)/ADMD=400NET/C=CH/"@MHS>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="Tue Nov 5 12:57:23 1996 L1 1"
Original-Encoded-Information-Types: Undefined, (1) (0) (10021) (7) (1) (0) (6),
(1) (0) (10021) (7) (1) (0) (1)
X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22)
Priority: normal

--Tue Nov 5 12:57:23 1996 L1 1
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

there is a bart.gif binary and SMTP GTW is set to uuencode it ...
--Tue Nov 5 12:57:23 1996 L1 1
Content-type: application/octet-stream
Content-transfer-encoding: uuencode
                                        
begin 600 ./TMP21278.Z
M'YV01Y(8P7$C#`@`!T,!6+C0GT.'#`&PB'CP(``!C`@]2K4HW(-1G&AI6S3'
MP*,#\^*`P94(Q#A&UU)@:`'/5JA;'EI!V.6*43!XC188^$-CV1-$3"RL.$9J
MTBT]2BY1,C4GBA`0J:@D4K*@$"H3W1XXLE?##K1S=8YT$G.H&+,X2I#U@/0E
M48LQ?LZ4P%/FP@EL9*J9(46$$@(,X1"8HE"B1I$L>:H,2H9M5JY*Q0!)$9<%
*#05-H"*IB;)P!PEL
`
end

--Tue Nov 5 12:57:23 1996 L1 1--


regards

markus
1347.2That's another example of the problemTAMARA::NEUMAN::NeumannStan NeumannMon Apr 28 1997 14:516
The sample message that you posted is another example of the
problem: it is a MIME message, but the encoding of the
bodypart is UUEncoding.  (Worse yet, it doesn't even
use x-uuencode!)

-Stan