Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:37:42 +0000 From: G <G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netscape 4.5 base64 encoding problem Message-ID: <36BAD806.7E0487DC@Swansea.ac.uk>
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Hi All.
I've got a problem with Netscape 4.5, to which I have just upgraded.
Prior to the upgrade, in outgoing message headers the following
appeared:
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
7bit
Since the upgrade, I am getting:
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
base64
On a digest version of another mailing list I'm on, a message I posted
appeared as gobbledy gook. Someone has posted it back to me, an excerpt
of it follows:
YyBhIGwgaSBiIGEgbiB3cm90ZToNCg0KPiAgICAgICAgIGltbyBhIGdvb2Qgcm9hZGNhc2Ug
aXMgd29ydGggJDEwMCBvbiB0aGUgcHJpY2UNCj4gICAgICAgICBvZiBhIHVzZWQgc3ludGgu
ICB0aGV5IGNvc3Qgd2VsbCBvdmVyIHRoYXQgdG8NCj4gICAgICAgICBtYWtlLg0KPg0KPiBP
A few other people, who aren't just receiving digests, have complained
that my mails are appearing as gobbledy gook. I've tried sending some
mail internally, via our FreeBSD server. My test messages appeared ok
on someone's MAC, and had the following in the headers
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by www-compsci.swan.ac.uk id
JAA11067
I have tried experimenting with the 8-bit versus MIME options in
Edit/Preferences/Messages dialogue box, without success. I have also
read the documents at:
http://www.lemis.com/email.html
When composing email, I typically use the HTML editor (which is, IMHO,
nicer to use) but convert the message to plain text prior to sending.
I upgraded from FreeBSD 2.2.7 stable to FreeBSD 2.2.8 stable at the same
time as upgrading Netscape (from version 4.0.5, I think). uname -a
returns the following:
FreeBSD cscall.swan.ac.uk 2.2.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Mon
Nov 30 06:34:08 GMT 1998
jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
Any advice on this would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks in advance
G.
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