Subject: help with MIME in Pine

From: [email-masked] (Peter Wennersten)
Date: 16 Jul 1995 14:58:34 GMT

HI,
I wonder if someone could help me.

I've been using Pine 3.91 (on a shell acount) now for a while 
but I haven't been able to configure it for/turn on the MIME option. 
I live in Sweden and when writing in swedish some characters of the 
"Latin1 codepage" (ASCII codes 142, 143 & 153) aren't always transferred 
correctly. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I've been told 
that there should not be any problem in the transfer (i.e. all characters 
will come out as they should on the other end) if both sender and receiver 
has the MIME handling option turned on in their mail software. 

People I have corresponded with tell me that the MIME encoding headers
that should be present in the header of a message are not there.

So, how do I turn on the MIME option in Pine?

I've been checking on-line help in Pine as well as the Pine site at 
http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine but I can't find (identify) the relevant 
information.

Can someone tell me what to do, please?

Also, how do I set Pine to use the ISO-8859-1 instead of US-ASCII. In Setup-
Config I've typed in iso-8859-1 on hte fourth screen at "Character set", but
in the headers of my messages it still says US-ASCII. What do I do wrong?

/Peter

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 13:50:41 -0700 (PDT)

Pine 3.91, as distributed, _always_ uses MIME.  Any occurance of a
character with an ASCII value of 128 or above will trigger MIME
Quoted-Printable encoding.  Pine will only label a message as ISO-8859-1
if it includes characters outside of 7bit US-ASCII.

Some possible sources of your problem could be that your terminal is not
capable of sending the extended characters, the Mail Transport on your
system is stripping the encpoding somehow, or you have a hacked version of
Pine that has Quoted-Printable encoding disabled...

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On 16 Jul 1995, Peter Wennersten wrote:

> Date: 16 Jul 1995 14:58:34 GMT
> From: Peter Wennersten <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: help with MIME in Pine
>
> HI,

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From: Horst_Hanak <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 16:41:23 +0200

> if it includes characters outside of 7bit US-ASCII.

'_always_ uses MIME' is in most cases very fine!

But some sites don't have the MIME-support. 

In this cases it would be good, to get a warning
   ( ----   a new feature   ------- in PINE),
if a character with an ASCII value of 128 or above is typed.

1) on REPLY it is possible to make the warning depending on the
   mail-header(was it a Mail with MIME-support?)

2) depending on the addressbook, putting an address from an
   incomming mail to the addressbook (MIMEFLAG=yes, if the
   Mail was with MIME-support)

Many users know nothing about ASCII values!!!
   Users simply write/read/print mail.

PINE is very good for E-Mail-beginners.

  Greetings,
   Horst Hanak
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