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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

1366.0. "FORWARD" by GRITS::WILLIAMS_T () Fri Apr 11 1997 11:04

    Hello, 
    
    I have a Decmailworks/UNix v2.0-1 customer . The customer has a problem
    forwarding messages. A user forwards a message to person A, person A
    receives the message with attachments, and body text. Person A forwards
    the message to person B who receives the headers but not the body of
    the message.  There are no error messages, and the problem seems to
    occur for who ever person B is. The message orginated in from Allin1
    v3.1 and travel thru the x400 gateway. 
    
    Thanks 
    
    Tommy Williams

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1366.1 Mix of MIME and non-MIME TAMARA::NEUMAN::Neumann Stan Neumann Fri Apr 18 1997 11:36 23

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1366.1	Mix of MIME and non-MIME	TAMARA::NEUMAN::Neumann	Stan Neumann	`Fri Apr 18 1997 11:36`	23
	Tommy - I suspect that this is WPAFB. Let me start by acknowledging we have a bug, and we're working on fixing it. By way of explanation: the problem is that the message is coming from the SMTP gateway, which is generating MIME. The received message is stored in the message store with the MIME version tag. When the message is then forwarded using UUEncoding, the MIME version tag is kept on the inner message, and that is a contradiction in terms (it can't be both MIME and non-MIME at the same time!) Unfortunately, they can't turn on MIME in general because of other mail systems that don't understand MIME (but then how can other mail systems read the mail that comes from ALL-IN-1? Don't ask me, I just work here :-) We hope to get this fixed sometime soon. -Stan

Tommy -

I suspect that this is WPAFB.

Let me start by acknowledging we have a bug, and we're working on
fixing it.

By way of explanation: the problem is that the message is coming
from the SMTP gateway, which is generating MIME.  The received
message is stored in the message store with the MIME version tag.
When the message is then forwarded using UUEncoding, the 
MIME version tag is kept on the inner message, and that
is a contradiction in terms (it can't  be both MIME and non-MIME
at the same time!)

Unfortunately, they can't turn on MIME in general because of
other mail systems that don't understand MIME (but then how
can other mail systems read the mail that comes from 
ALL-IN-1?  Don't ask me, I just work here :-)

We hope to get this fixed sometime soon.

-Stan