Subject: quoted-printable/MIME-compliance problem...

From: Bruno Boettcher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:18:33 +0100 (MET)

hello,

i have set in my pine conf the character set to iso, when i receive iso
encoded messages from other users, it works if there is no X.400<->SMTP
conversion on receive, but it doesn't work when i send. The only cases
where it works is when the other person also uses pine (seems to me)...

I have recently tryed to send files through attachment to a friend of mine
who is on a sun and to my father (X.400) in both cases it didn't work...

What possibities exist to find the source of the problem (pine,
MTA(sendmail), mail exchanger, bridge etc...) and what test should i run?
Does pine decide when to generate quoted-printable? Can this behaviour be
controlled. I tryed to receive on my machine MIME compliant sendings
composed of a note in iso-latin 1 char set + attachments, but the
attachments are uuencoded in the note, separated by:
_________________________________________________
--smxr-96110511082010673
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=PAD1.TXT
Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64

an then the uucode

and for example the german umlauts appear this way:
=94=3do mit Umlaut
=84=3da mit Umlaut
=81=3du mit Umlaut
=e1=3dscharf s
=82=3d e accent aigu
=8a=3de accent grave

seems to me to be quoted printable, but i am not an expert....
if i send an attachment, there too it appears merged with the note...

any help will be appreciated

ciao
[email-masked] 

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