At 06:14 PM +0200 01/31/00, era eriksson wrote:
>You still want to turn off this. It's not enough to turn off MIME --
>and indeed, you probably can continue to use MIME generally if you
>just turn off this gratuitous cruft. It's probably under something
>like "send richtext" or "formatted" or something like that.
Zoltan's original problem was not the attachment, but the
quoted-printable MIME setting. This is easily diagnosed by the fact
that the offending line was broken with an = at the end of the line,
and verified from the headers he quoted. ALWAYS TURN OFF
QUOTED-PRINTABLE ENCODING. With Eudora, it's a button at the top of
the composition window. I don't know how to manage it in other
mailers.
Usually it's best to turn off word wrap also, assuming you composed
the FAQ outside the mailer. When using a mailer that supports
format=flowed, turn it off also.
In short, it probably *is* best to avoid all MIME usage when sending
email to the FAQ servers, as supported by David Alex Lamb's position.
But I don't think most mailers have an option for this. You usually
have to deal with it one option at a time.
>AFAIK the tnef thing is for passing font and formatting information
>to
>other clients which can use this, but you don't want that, because
>the
>clients which +can't+ use this information will display a humongous
>mold of binary porridge, and they're certainly still the majority out
>there.
I completely agree. I've never managed to decode a tnef attachment,
and usually find that the senders don't even know they are sending
ugly attachments.
However, mailers that support MIME but not tnef (such as Eudora) will
just display a mysterious attachment, not the humongous porridge.
Which is probably just about as bad.
Edward Reid
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