Subject: pine and MS Outlook

From: "Marie.Jackson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:04:01 +0000 (GMT)

I've searched the archives for this, but haven't found anything.  I 
apologise if it's all old hat to you.

We have used pine as our email front-end on our Unix box for several 
years now, and have found it most reliable.  However, I'm getting one or 
two problems, associated with email sent with MicroSoft Outlook.  One 
student as good as accused me of tampering with his mail. The message was 
in his spooled mail file, but did not show up on an INBOX listing.  The 
mailx front-end, which is pretty basic, could see the message.  In 
another case, the Outlook message and a 2nd message were attached to the 
end of another message - pine couldn't detect any separation between the 
Outlook message and the messages fore and aft of it.  Again, I had to use 
mailx to split them up.  The only common factor so far has been MS 
Outlook 8.5

We are using pine 3.91, our email server is sendmail 8.8.8 and our 
delivery agent is /bin/mail, as supplied with Solaris 2.5 

I'm not sure where to start on this, and would value your views.

Marie Jackson
Computer Support Services
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
High Wycombe
Bucks.  HP11 2JZ
UK

Email: [email-masked]
Tel: 01494 522141 X3404
Fax: 01494 464729

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From: Michael Talbot-Wilson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:13:06 +1030 (CST)

> delivery agent is /bin/mail, as supplied with Solaris 2.5 

It is most likely a matter of "innovative" headers that later
versions of pine can handle.  You have no problems with mailx, and
are receiving the mail by SMTP using sendmail 8.8.8, i.e. the
separations must the there, so it is unlikely that the problem is
anywhere else.
 
Your pragmatic course is to upgrade and see if the problem persists.

If it does, take a look at the headers of the offending mail and
see if they verify against RFC 822 and RFC 1132.

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