Subject: pine confused by X11

From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:01:22 -0600 (CST)

Every now and again, I receive a message with a plain text attachment that pine
refuses to display, claiming that there are special characters that can only be
displayed with X11.

Here's the sample attachment, but I don't see the special characters.

Is there anything in the following headers that is causing pine to see
something that isn't there? I'm using Pine 3.95 on Linux.

X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
{offending mailer}
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01BCDF9B.52FF01A0" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_01BCDF9B.52FF01A0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

{plain text that wasn't displayable, deleted}

------=_NextPart_000_01BCDF9B.52FF01A0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

{2nd attachment deleted}

------=_NextPart_000_01BCDF9B.52FF01A0--

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Oct 1997 19:15:37 +0100

>> "AHK" == Adam H Kerman <[email-masked]> writes:

AHK> Every now and again, I receive a message with a plain text
AHK> attachment that pine refuses to display, claiming that there
AHK> are special characters that can only be displayed with X11.

MIME problem.

AHK> Here's the sample attachment, but I don't see the special
AHK> characters.

MS is a special character. It says: "Bomb Redmont".

AHK> Is there anything in the following headers that is causing pine
AHK> to see something that isn't there? I'm using Pine 3.95 on Linux.

AHK> X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155
AHK> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ {offending mailer} 

Nice. Throw that rubbish away. It's an abomination. Gill Bates must
die RSN. You can safely discard the attachment, it's probably an ad
for Windog2000 (to be released RSN).

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
(Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates)

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From: Geoff Reed <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:57:22 -0800 (PST)

> MS is a special character. It says: "Bomb Redmont".
 
  That's Redmond :)

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:33:42 -0600 (CST)

>Subject: Re[2]: pine confused by X11
          ^^^^^
>From: Geoff Reed <[email-masked]>
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:57:22 -0800 (PST)

I see you use Gatesware too.