From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 04:59:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA13025 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 04:59:11 -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 EAA13020 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 04:59:08 -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 12:58:49 +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 NAA16350; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:13:13 GMT (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@Swansea.ac.uk) Message-ID: <36BAEB62.A4264159@Swansea.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:00:18 +0000 From: G X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en To: Mark Ovens CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 base64 encoding problem References: <36BAD806.7E0487DC@Swansea.ac.uk> <36BAE6B9.4744F866@uk.radan.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > G wrote: > > > This is the header from your message as I received it. It looks fine > in Communicator 4.5 on SunOS 4.1.3_U1: > > X-Mime-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id > DAA03910 > > hub.freebsd.org has converted it from base64 to 8bit. > Yes, I have spotted this also. If I send it internally, then our server performs the same conversion. > > ICB0aGV5IGNvc3Qgd2VsbCBvdmVyIHRoYXQgdG8NCj4gICAgICAgICBtYWtlLg0KPg0KPiBP > > That looks like base64 *grin* I'll take your word for it. Ah, here's the bit were our servers does that conversion (when someone *receives* a message from me internally). > > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by www-compsci.swan.ac.uk id > > JAA11067 > > > The settings I'm using here (for this reply) are: > > Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Messages > > in the bottom pane I've selected Quoted Printable for 8-bit messages. this is what I usually have > and in > > Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Formatting > > I'm using "Use plain text to compose" and "Convert to plain text" for > HTML (the latter probably has no effect for me as I'm not composing in > HTML. *nods* > > I think that if you compose in HTML it is sent as 8bit, which means it > must be encoded (with base64). Some (most?) Unix mailers can't handle > this, they expect uuencode. Well, I wouldn't have thought this would make a difference if its is converted to plain text anyway, but I've set mine the same as yours for this message anyhow. > Does any of this help? *grin* Well, hopefully we'll find out when this message hits this list. Many thanks for your reply, anyhow. Best wishes 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