From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 5 06:36:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25260 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 06:36:57 -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 GAA25244 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 06:36:51 -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 14:36:37 +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 OAA18842; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:51:01 GMT (envelope-from G.S.J.Howell@Swansea.ac.uk) Message-ID: <36BB024E.44EF4142@Swansea.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:38:06 +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> <36BAEB62.A4264159@Swansea.ac.uk> <36BAEEC0.546C0B05@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: > > > > > > 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 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Note the charset is now "us-ascii" and there is no > "Content-Transfer-Encoding". Curious, the header of the message sent > from my FreeBSD system still had the "Content-Transfer-Encoding: > 7-bit" field. > > I think that HTML composed messages are assumed to be 8-bit, even when > they omly contain 7-bit chars. How wrong I was, eh? It appears that you are correct. Its weird, 'cos I always used to use the HTML composer in Netscape 4.05 - its only because it makes a slightly better job of quoting messages that you're replying to. Oh well, I'll struggle through some how. *grin* > >From my experience, many of the replies will be along the lines of > "....get yourself a proper mailer...." ;-) Mercifully, I haven't had any of them, yet. Phew. ;o} Many thanks Mark. You're help is very much appreciated. 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