Subject: Forwarded MIME messages.

From: Ben Clewett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:58:44 +0000

I cannot use the MIME part of PINE when I am forwarding messages to my UNIX
system from my VAX account.

This might sound like a strange thing to need to do, but by system here
includes an interesting fire-wall which posts all incoming mail to my VAX
account, where I can instruct the VAX mail server to forward my mail to 
any internal system, being my UNIX account running PINE.

Therefore all incoming mail has an internal VAX added forwading header instead
of the origional Internet header.  This I belive is the reason that the Pine
I am using does not touch MIME encrypted data!  This is becoming difficult as
I have several friends, all of whome want to send me binary data, and although
I can send them MIME data all day long, can never see what they send back to
me.

I have here the chance to dump my Unix account and use Microsoft Mail, which
under unusual conditions of only getting VAX forwarded mail, does still see
the MIME data and extract it.  This is something I don't even want to consider!

If anybody out there can help me, I will be very happy!  

Please reply to my EMail address using only VAX understandable data.

Ben Clewett.

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From: "Alan J. Flavell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:44:58 GMT

> system from my VAX account.

You can consider installing Yehavi Bourvine's port of PINE to
VAX/VMS onto the VAX account.  This understands the MIME headers
in spite of the extra VAX headers.

You should be able to do this even as a normal user, without system
privileges on the VAX system.

look at my notes
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/vms-pine.html
for pointers to the software, etc.  Hope this helps.

> any internal system, being my UNIX account running PINE.

You would have to invoke PINE manually on the VAX system.  The
automatic forwarding could not do this AFAIK.

> I am using does not touch MIME encrypted data!  

I know this well!  However, an alternative would be to install one
of the MIME utilities such as Mpack on your unix system, and filter
the incoming mail items by hand, if you can't or won't use Yehavi's
package.

Thanks to your long lines, I suspect that this posting is going
to get MIME-encoded by PINE anyway.  (See my other thread on this topic)

cheers