Subject: Garbeled mail

From: Mark Johnston <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 14:59:46 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,
I am using Pine 3.89 on a vax system.  I sent a short test message with 
a signature file to myself and recieved exactly what I sent.  BUT, when
I sent a similar message to a local user on the system, she recieved what 
is below.  Is this a "system" problem, or do I just have something screwy
set-up in my .pinerc file?   Thanks for any help you can give.

    - Mark -
    [email-masked]

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:25:11 +0800 (TPE)

> set-up in my .pinerc file?   Thanks for any help you can give.

	What you see below is your .sig that has been encoded using
base64 encoding.

> SSBkb24ndCBrbm93LCBJIGhhdmVuJ3Qgc3RhcnRlZCBvbiBpdCB5ZXQuICBJ
> ZiBpdCBpcyBlYXN5LCBpdCB3b3VsZG4ndCANCmh1cnQgbXkgZmVlbGluZ3Mg
> dGhvdWdoLg0KDQogIMnNzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3Nzc3N

	Correct me if I am wrong but you used ^R to read in your .sig.

	Well, what happened is pine detected 8bit data in your message
when you sent it.  Thus it decided, correctly, that it should be encoded
to ensure that it arrives at the destination intact.  It was sent the
same way when you sent it to yourself and to the other person.  The
only difference is you are using a MIME capable UA and the other person
is not.  When you read your message with pine it automatically decoded
the base64 and displayed your .sig.  If you look in your mail spool
file you will see the same encoded data and not your .sig.

					Ed

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