Subject: Internal Base64 Decoder Error with Outlook attachments

From: Maxwell Spangler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:17:52 -0400 (EDT)

I'm using pine 4.32 on Linux and when some of my co-workers send me mail with
attachments from Outlook, I can't save the last attachment.  After
comparing good messages to bad, I've found the offending problem.

The problem seems to be that on the last attachment, Outlook is making this
final phrase like this:

------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C1007B.0B95AB20--)

Where pine wants to see this:

------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C1007B.0B95AB20--

The last attachment = the single attachment of a single-attachment email, or
the last attachment of a multiple-attachment email.

Right now I have to save each message to a temporary file, edit out the ) and
then I can go back into pine to save the attachment.

I can't seem to find any information about this problem in either the archives
or a search on google.. Can anybody help me with further information on this?
Obviously I've got a workaround, but I really figured someone would already
know about this and have considered a workaround within pine.  (Because I
doubt we'll get MS to release a patch.. etc. etc)

Thanks in advance!
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From: Mats Dufberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:07:15 +0200 (CEST)

> ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C1007B.0B95AB20--)

Which is illegal, since the final delimiter must be suffixed byt '--'.

> ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C1007B.0B95AB20--

Reasonable.

> doubt we'll get MS to release a patch.. etc. etc)

Well, since it is a clear bug, they should... If you save the mail in an
ordinary unix mailbox file, you could remove the character in error.

Mats

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