Subject: Forward causes retention of original MIME media type

From: Dan Wing <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:55:55 -0800 (PST)

With Pine 4.05 on Unix, I have noticed the Forward command causes
the original MIME media type to be retained.  While this works okay
if the original MIME media type was multipart/mixed, it doesn't
work okay if the original MIME media type was another multipart,
such as multipart/related (which is the most recent one that
I had a problem with).

As a workaround, I can use "H" (to display full headers) and then
use "F" and then forward-as-attachment, which gets around the problem 
but is much less intuitive (and involves more typing).

Has anyone else noticed this problem?

-Dan Wing

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From: "Steven A. Ertelt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:22:22 -0600 (CST)

I noticed the same problem as well when I used the Unix version of Pine
before switching to PC Pine the other day. I used the same remedy as your
described by forwarding the email, though I didn't need to use the full
headers option. Netscape email seemed to read MIME messages much better
and I used to forward it to a Netscape email accont before learning I
could just forward it to myself.

Cheers,
Steven