Subject: MIME: Pine and Pegasus Mail

From: [email-masked] (Glenn Leavell)
Date: 17 May 1995 21:30:39 GMT

I'm experiencing some trouble *reading* MIME articles in Pine 3.91
  that were sent to me from non-Pine MIME-compliant mailers.

  For example, when a colleague sends me a MIME note from Pegasus Mail for
  Windows (Version 20 Wide Beta) and attaches a GIF image file, Pine
  doesn't show the extra attachment, although the MIME headers look
  correct to me.  Instead the BASE64 version of the GIF file is seen
  in the standard text portion of the note.

  On the other hand, when I send him an attachment, he *does* see it,
  although his external GIF viewer does not start automatically, as
  it normally does.  Instead, he has to select to save the file and
  then manually view it.

  Is there a known bug in Pine regarding this type of behavior?  Any
  help would be appreciated.

-- 
Glenn Leavell, [email-masked]
University of Georgia, University Computing and Networking Services

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From: Aladdin Khamis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 11:35:03 +0000 (GMT)

Hi all,

Does anybody know how to set an SMTP server in UNIX, so PC-PINE is able 
to use it and sends and receives E-mail ?

P.s.  I looked through the FAQ for pine, but I still have some hard time 
      doing it.

		Any help will be appreciated

						Thanks

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From: [email-masked] (Glenn Leavell)
Date: 24 May 1995 16:23:53 GMT

>  in the standard text portion of the note.

  Thanks very much to the following people for helping me to diagnose
  this problem:

    Rick Crelia <[email-masked]>
    Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
    Larry Miller [DT] <[email-masked]>
    Mary Odom <[email-masked]>
    David Quarterman <[email-masked]>
    Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>

  When sending mail in Pegasus, you can select a "special" button.  Under
  the special area, is a yes/no choice for whether or not to use MIME.  By
  default, it's set to no.  No matter how you have this yes/no setting
  configured, you still have to choose a type like "MIME GIF" or "MIME
  JPEG" when including an attachment with your note.  If you do include an
  attachment but have the "no" choice selected for MIME, then the note is
  sent with all the MIME headers and separators, but without the crucial
  "MIME-Version" header.  This seems pretty strange and confusing to me.
  Does anyone know why there should be an option to send MIME attachments
  *without* the "MIME-Version" header?

  Thanks again for all the help.

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From: Aladdin Khamis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:31:10 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu, 18 May 1995, Aladdin Khamis wrote:

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:10:00 -0700 (PDT)

> to use it and sends and receives E-mail ?

This depends on what Mail Transport Agent (MTA) you are using, e.g.
sendmail, smail, mmdf, pp, etc.  What symptoms do you get when you try to
use the system you sent this message from?

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