Subject: Pine 4.44 and problem wit an attachments

From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:09:39 +0200 (MEST)

Hi,

I got the e-mail from "X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)"
which has a two attachments, but unfortunatelly, the Pine doesn't
recognize these attachments correctly.

Instead having these attachment in the attachment view, the Pine shows
them as a normal e-mail content.

Here is a part of header and the e-mail:

From: NETnet Support <[email-masked]>
To: xxxxx
Subject: RE: Demande de tarifs
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:29:57 +0200
<054AA7AE9571D511B41400508B44CCAF34C51E@be-exchange>
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)

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M(#@@#2]((%L@,3(S,R`R,S,@72`-+TP@,3(Q,34S(`TO12`Q,3DT-S(@#2].
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When I redirected this email from an Unix shell to the Netscape mail
Inbox, then I could save correctly the attachments. But from Pine not.
:(

I can send the whole email if it will be necessery.

Regards,
Murphy

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From: Alessandro Selli <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:48:13 +0200 (CEST)

Il giorno Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Murphy così ha scritto:

|From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
|To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
|Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:09:39 +0200
|Subject: Pine 4.44 and problem wit an attachments
|
|Hi,
|
|I got the e-mail from "X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)"
|which has a two attachments, but unfortunatelly, the Pine doesn't
|recognize these attachments correctly.
|
|Instead having these attachment in the attachment view, the Pine shows
|them as a normal e-mail content.
|
|Here is a part of header and the e-mail:
|
|Return-Path: <[email-masked]>
|Received: from hippopotamus.sonytel.be (mail.sonytel.be [10.17.0.26])
|        by mail.sonytel.be (8.9.0/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA08308
|        for <xxxx@xxxxxx>; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:39:26 +0200 (MET DST)
|Received: from 9.252-136-217.adsl-fix.skynet.be ([217.136.252.9]
|    helo=be-exchange.netnet.be)
|        by hippopotamus.sonytel.be with esmtp (Exim 4.04)
|        id 17xMpq-0003fF-00
|        for [email-masked]; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:25:18 +0200
|Received: by be-exchange with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
|        id <T8GS788Z>; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:29:57 +0200
|Message-ID: <054AA7AE9571D511B41400508B44CCAF34C51E@be-exchange>
|From: NETnet Support <[email-masked]>
|To: xxxxx
|Subject: RE: Demande de tarifs
|Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:29:57 +0200
|X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  I'm afraid this is what causes the problem.  I first learned about this new
m$ "technology" when some people found themselves unable to open attachments
found in messages composed with out-of-luck express.  Some MUA can now handle
this fortmat, some still have problems with it.  I found many references to
"X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:", among them:

http://radawana.cg.tuwien.ac.at/mail-archives/lll/199910/msg00217.html

[...]

|Several Microsoft Windows email applications support the Transport Neutral
|Encapsulation Format (TNEF). This is a method for MAPI compliant
|mail programs to transfer data to each other across gateways. Generally, a
|mail agent will create a MIME multipart message containing the text
|body of the mail message, and a single attachment of type application/ms-tnef.
|This attachment at least follows the format of MIME messages, if
|not the intent. Usually, this bitstream contains no more information than is
|already contained in the headers and body of the message, but instead
|of attaching attachments to the email message as separate MIME attachments,
|they are included in the TNEF attachment. To handle this, I wrote
|a program tnef2txt which will dump the information in the TNEF bitstream, and
|also dump files to disk which are contained in the bitstream. Just
|run the program without arguments for usage information. You can call this
|program from a mailcap file with the following line:
|
|application/ms-tnef; tnef2txt %s; copiousoutput
|
|or, if you wish to save attachments to disk which are in the bitstream:
|
|application/ms-tnef; tnef2txt -s %s; copiousoutput
|
|
|
|
|Die Adresse ist:
|http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/
|

  On http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/ you can find the programs:

* tnef2txt - A portable application/ms-tnef parser
* rtfreader - A portable application/ms-rtf parser

  Sandro

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From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:02:20 +0200 (MEST)

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>"X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:", among them:

Thanks for the links with a programs which can extract the attachments
from the e-mail.

Regards,
Murphy