From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 03:36:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03914 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mhs (mhs.swan.ac.uk [137.44.1.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03909 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:36:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@swansea.ac.uk) Received: from www-compsci.swan.ac.uk by mhs with SMTP-LOCAL (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:36:18 +0000 Received: from Swansea.ac.uk (cscall [137.44.2.58]) by www-compsci.swan.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14235 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:50:37 GMT (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@Swansea.ac.uk) Message-ID: <36BAD806.7E0487DC@Swansea.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:37:42 +0000 From: G X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netscape 4.5 base64 encoding problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA03910 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Geraint Howell, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. UK. Tel:(+44)1792 295 651 Fax:(+44)1792 295 708 E-mail: g.s.j.howell[at]swansea.ac.uk "The geeks shall inherit the Earth" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message