forwarded mail problems

forwarded mail problems

[Wes Hardaker]

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A note from my co-worker:


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To: wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu
Subject: mail problems
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:13:03 -0700
Message-ID: <199906181613.JAA22983@clover.ece.ucdavis.edu>

Hi Wes,
Have you changed something in your outgoing mail settings? The last couple
of forwards I've gotten from you generate the following error when I 
attempt to read them with vanilla show:

% show
(Message inbox:4643)
mhn: "message/rfc822" type in message 4643 should be encoded in 7bit, continuing...


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So, uh, ???  Should the encoding be different for outgoing
message/rfc822 messages?

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Distributed Computing Analysis and Support
University of California at Davis

Re: forwarded mail problems

[Colin Rafferty]

Wes Hardaker writes:

> So, uh, ???  Should the encoding be different for outgoing
> message/rfc822 messages?

I'd like to help you, but I couldn't read the forwarded message.

It was encoded in 8bit instead of 7bit.

:-)

-- 
Colin

Re: forwarded mail problems

[Bruce Stephens]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> So, uh, ???  Should the encoding be different for outgoing
> message/rfc822 messages?

This hasn't changed for a while, I think.  Try looking at the variable
mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults, and changing that.  I think
it's a misfeature, however---I think Gnus ought to look, and if the
enclosed things are 7bit, then it ought to use that (and otherwise, I
suspect base64 would be safer, although possibly not more readable to
people without MIME MUAs).

Re: forwarded mail problems

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 18 Jun 1999 21:14:22 +0100, Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> said:

>> So, uh, ???  Should the encoding be different for outgoing
>> message/rfc822 messages?

Bruce> This hasn't changed for a while, I think.  Try looking at the
Bruce> variable mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults, and changing
Bruce> that.  I think it's a misfeature, however---I think Gnus ought
Bruce> to look, and if the enclosed things are 7bit, then it ought to
Bruce> use that (and otherwise, I suspect base64 would be safer,
Bruce> although possibly not more readable to people without MIME
Bruce> MUAs).

Well, the deal is that I'm not setting anything specific in my .gnus
file that should be changing the encoding, so I suspected that
something was actually broken with gnus.  Try forwarding yourself
something and I bet it won't work (looks fine in the outgoing
composition...  It's not till its un'mml'ified that it seems to get
8bit encoded.


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