Subject: quoted-printable mime encoding

From: bob ellsworth s <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 08:56:06 -0300 (EDT)

hi : does pine have problems with the "quoted-printable" form of mime
encoding. i ask because of the following context:

we are using pine on a symetry sequent box running ptx 2.2.0. we have
versions of both wordperfect 5.0 and wordperfect 5.1 available. we have no
problem sending wp5.0 files as attachments and pine uses BASE64 as the
encoding method for these files. when we attempt to send wp51 files as
attachments pine seems to pick the files up properly (it gets the right
size) but only the first few bytes (about 6 or 7 bytes) are recieved by the
recipient. pine is using quoted-printable to encode these wp51 files.

Any help would be appreciated.

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From: "David L. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 10:08:24 -0700 (PDT)

Pine 3.0x has some known "quirks" in MIME encoding/decoding.  Pine 4.0
will have much improved MIME support...

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From: "A. Hilborne" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 10:24:45 +0100 (BST)

> will have much improved MIME support...

I'd like to ask a question about this support.  Will it include fall-back
to metamail?  This would seem to be desirable so that if, say, our site
puts in new support for viewing and sending faxes using MIME, it can be
immediately available with all our mailers.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 07:26:36 -0700 (PDT)

> immediately available with all our mailers.

Andrew,
The intention is to implement the "mailcap" facility, similar to what is 
in Nathaniel's metamail distribution.  It is indeed our goal to be able to 
add support for new subtypes without changing Pine.  Ideally, we'd like 
to be able to handle printing as well as viewing via the mailcap 
facility, and have a way to pipe output back into a Pine browser window, 
so you do support PEM, etc, by just adding the appropriate table entry.
(It's much easier if you can assume a multi-window display.)
We haven't yet determined whether we can achieve those functional goals 
in a way that is upward compatible with the existing mailcap definition.

-teg

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From: Laurence Lundblade <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 14:20:29 -0400 (EDT)

This may be a bug in Pine 3.05. There was a version of Pine that had a bug
attaching files with NULL characters in them. It would behave as you
described. I think it was fixed in a version after 3.05, though I don't
know for certain if it's in Pine 3.07.  I'd suggest giving it a try.

Laurence Lundblade
  [email-masked] or [email-masked] (both forward to same place)
     Blacksburg, Virginia or Seattle, Washington