Subject: Problems with headers from Quickmail

From: Alessandro MIOTTO <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:20:56 +0100 (MET)

I include below a message coming from a Macintosh which has a 
Content-Type text/plain and a peculiar 'name' attribute, i.e. "Message 
Body". Since pine believes, because of 'name', that the message is a 
file, reading this message requires two carriage returns and going back 
requires Exiting twice.

The pine behaviour is very irritating for users, and it looks like there 
is no way to set the Mac mailer not to use this attribute. Furthermore, I 
could not find anything in the RFC that precludes the use of the 'name' 
attribute for something different from a file name.
To make users happy I had to patch mailview.c and not set the has_name 
variable when the 'name' value is "Message Body".

Any comments?

	Alessandro

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Date: 31 Jan 1996 10:12:53 +0100
From: "Mats Moller" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: The macmail/pine issue
To: "Alessandro MIOTTO" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jan Hendrik Peters" <[email-masked]>,
        "Judy Richards" <[email-masked]>,
        "UMTF - Mail workgroup" <[email-masked]>

        Reply to:   RE>>The macmail/pine issue

Hello,
I have made some testing with pine, Netscape and Eudora on my side. It looks like pine is the only client that can not handle messages coming from QM correctly. Both Netscape and Eudora works fine (they do NOT consider the mail body to be an enclosure). So maybe the problem is pine?
Mats

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:38:35 -0800 (PST)

> variable when the 'name' value is "Message Body".

We'll do the same in Pine3.92.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle