Subject: pine --> eudora MIME problem

From: [email-masked] (S Chan)
Date: 22 May 1996 04:43:23 GMT

Why is there a difference between the way Pine treats a mimed attachment 
that originates in pine and one that originates in eudora - and how can I 
change it ?

I use Pine to mail a simple ASCII file to a colleague in Canada.

If I send the email to myself with the file attached it arrives OK and I
can read it in pine (using the Viewer command to see the attachment). 

When she reads it with Eudora the attachment is incorporated in the body 
of the message , with various headers attached.  this causes hassle 
because she has to manually edit the message to separate the attachment.

We have the same problem the other way around too. If she sends me a 
message with a mimed attachment I get lines inserted in the message 
telling me to use 'munpack' to decode it. 

My question again - 
Why is there a difference between the way Pine treats a mimed attachment 
that originates in pine and one that originates in eudora - and how can I 
change it ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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From: [email-masked] (Andy Steere)
Date: 24 May 1996 16:22:30 GMT

S Chan <[email-masked]> wrote:
: 
: When she reads it with Eudora the attachment is incorporated in the body 
: of the message , with various headers attached.  this causes hassle 
: because she has to manually edit the message to separate the attachment.

It's not just Eudora.  Lotus cc:Mail does the same thing.  I have also had
major trouble with attached files sent to users of previous versions of
pine.

Anybody know how to fix this (other than not using the current version 
of pine)???

Andy Steere - [email-masked]
University of Missouri - System Administration
http://www.system.missouri.edu/andy/

: 
: We have the same problem the other way around too. If she sends me a 
: message with a mimed attachment I get lines inserted in the message 
: telling me to use 'munpack' to decode it. 
: 
: 
: My question again - 
: Why is there a difference between the way Pine treats a mimed attachment 
: that originates in pine and one that originates in eudora - and how can I 
: change it ?
: 
: Thanks in advance for any help.