Subject: Problems reading Pine attachments in Windows Outlook XP

From: Steen Linden <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:12:17 +0100 (CET)

It appears that Outlook for Windows XP has problems with attachments
produced by pine.

The attachments are there and seems to be correctly formated since the
Outlook user is able to save them from the "File"  menu and the
attachments are also correctly included if the mail is forwarded back
from Outlook XP to the pine user.

Initially we thought this was due to corruption of the MIME headers
appearing in the body made by some anti-virus filter, but the "boundary"
strings are intact and we've tested with various different Outlook XP
environments.

The problem seems to only appear in Windows Outlook XP, not in Outlook
Express XP, nor Outlook for NT.

I expect it to be a Microsoft problem. However I post this here since
the ubiquity of Microsoft products makes it less likely that Microsoft
or their users will care about it unless several others experience the
same problem.

Has anybody else experienced apparently missing attachments in Outlook
XP or are your pine attachments working perfectly with Outlook XP?
Please let me know.

Pine versions tested are Pine-4.33/FreeBSD-4.3 and PC-Pine-4.33/WinNT
Among the Windows XP versions tested are "Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627/MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000"

Best wishes
Steen Linden

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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:02:07 -0500 (EST)

Check the headers in your message (send a copy to
yourself, save it to a new mailbox, and look at
the mailbox with vi or emacs) - what is the
Content-Type of your attachments? Is it coming out
something like Application/OCTET-STREAM when
something like Image/jpeg would be more helpful?

If so, your system manager has not properly setup
the file mime.types, you can supply ~/.mime.types
- this is the official place for getting values
for Content-Type.

dan        [email-masked]
http://www.NationalReform.org/ - Explicitly Christian Politics
Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh, but in vain.

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From: Steen Linden <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:42:32 +0100 (CET)

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply, but I don't think the problem is the
Content-Type. As you can see below the MIME headers for
APPLICATION/MSWORD attachments looks perfectly allright.

Best wishes
Steen Linden

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: MULTIPART/Mixed; BOUNDARY="1619078-12662-1011186519=:279"
Content-ID: <[email-masked]>

  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
  while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
  Send mail to [email-masked] for more info.

--1619078-12662-1011186519=:279
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-ID: <[email-masked]>

her er attachments.

--1619078-12662-1011186519=:279
Content-Type: APPLICATION/MSWORD; NAME="FG1.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-ID: <[email-masked]>
Content-Description:
Content-Disposition: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME="FG1.doc"

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
AAAAYAEAAAAAAAAAEAAAYgEAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAF0BAABeAQAAXwEAAP//
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

... SNIP ...

--1619078-12662-1011186519=:279
Content-Type: APPLICATION/MSWORD; NAME="annex2.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Content-ID: <[email-masked]>
Content-Description:
Content-Disposition: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME="annex2.doc"

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB
AAAARwAAAAAAAAAAEAAASQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAEYAAAD/////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

... SNIP ...

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From: Marc Rouleau <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:03:28 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

I think you probably need to turn on the new (4.33+) quell-content-id
feature.

    -- Marc

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Steen Linden wrote:
>The attachments are there and seems to be correctly formated since
>the Outlook user is able to save them from the "File"  menu and the
>appearing in the body made by some anti-virus filter, but the
>"boundary" strings are intact and we've tested with various different
>Outlook XP environments.
>
>The problem seems to only appear in Windows Outlook XP, not in
>Outlook Express XP, nor Outlook for NT.
>
>the ubiquity of Microsoft products makes it less likely that
>Microsoft or their users will care about it unless several others
>experience the same problem.
>
>Has anybody else experienced apparently missing attachments in
>Outlook XP or are your pine attachments working perfectly with
>Outlook XP?  Please let me know.
>
>Best wishes Steen Linden

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From: Steen Linden <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 00:24:38 +0100 (CET)

Hi Marc,

Thanks a lot for the tip about quell-content-id.

Somehow I managed to miss it in the Pine Information Centre even though
it's actually the first thing that pops up if you search for "Outlook
XP". Sorry.

Best wishes
Steen LInden

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:12:32 +0000 (GMT Normalzeit)

> I think you probably need to turn on the new (4.33+) quell-content-id

FYI, a message about this Microsoft XP Outlook bug was posted to the
"interesting-people" mailing list today. You can read it here...

 IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification
 <http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200201/msg00199.html>

Nancy
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