Subject: Unreadable messages. (fwd)

From: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 10:02:26 -0700 (PDT)

Forwarded message:
>From dpalm Mon Oct 11 22:38:02 1993
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 05:38:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Douglas Palm <dpalm>
Subject: Unreadable messages. (fwd)
To: Ralph Sims <[email-masked]>
Cc: Network Operator <[email-masked]>
Message-Id: <[email-masked]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Ralph,

Ever since the PINE mail agent was updated I've had problems with BASE64
coding.  Please see the attached reply from our Bangkok office.  The
problem is the same for Compuserve users and Internet users alike.  What
is BASE64 and how can I get PINE to work as it did before the upgrade?  

P.S. I've already reported this to the NOC with no reply.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 10 Oct 93 00:36:59 EDT
From: Tony Stewart <[email-masked]>
To: "Doug Palm (PATH)" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Unreadable messages from you.

Doug, 

Your last three messages have been unreadable.  I cannot decode them with any 
of my utilities.  I suspect that your MIME mailer is using an application 
specific encoding scheme.

Here are the first few lines of your last message.  Try using standard 
UUENCODE or ascii.

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1993 21:08:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Douglas Palm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: 8lb Baby Girl
To: Tony Stewart <[email-masked]>
In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]>
Message-Id: <[email-masked]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64

QnJpZWFubmEgTHltYW4gUGFsbS4NCkJvcm4gNjoxMiBhLm0uIFBULCBTZXB0
ZW1iZXIgMzAsIDE5OTMuDQpXdDogOGxicyAxLzIgb3ouICBMbjogMjAiDQoK
V2UncmUgYWxsIGRvaW5nIHdlbGwgaGVyZSBhdCBob21lLiAgSSdsbCBiZSBi
YWNrIGluIGFjdGlvbiBuZXh0IHdlZWsgYnV0IAp3aWxsIHRyeSB0byBtYWlu
dGFpbiBteSBtYWlsYm94IHdoZW4gcG9zc2libGUgKGEgbG9zaW5nIGJhdHRs

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From: Barry Cornelius <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 08:29:58 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 12 Oct 1993, Ralph Sims wrote:

> [stuff deleted]

I have notcied that, for some messages, with full headers switched on, the
BASE64 "gibberish" comes out, whereas with full headers off, "normal text"
comes out. 

To prove that I was able to read the BASE64 gibberish in your message, I
put the message with Subject field "Re; 8lb Baby Girl" into a folder,
switched full headers off, and found that the baby girl was born at 6.12am
on September 30th.  [Congratulations!]

I have also noticed that the presence of lines ending with carriage-return
following by line-feed instead of just line-feed causes the message to be
classified as BASE64 in the Unix version of Pine. 

I dunno if that helps.

--
Barry Cornelius                            Durham (091 or +44 91) 374 4717
Information Technology Service,                IT Service Office: 374 2892
University of Durham, Durham.                                Fax: 374 3741
DH1 3LE, UK                           E-mail: [email-masked]