Uuencode and buggy outlook [Re: Digest patches mess up e-mail]

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:30:22 +0200


Hi!

> It's Outlook Express, but don't feel too bad because it is not the only
> reader that does it. If you look, you will notice that the line that kills
> is "begin 644 file". Some readers decode the patch which follows,
> but don't
> continue with the message after the end. They just truncate. You can mail
> yourself a test message to confirm. Just begin the line as I state above.
> In a perfect world, the readers would be fixed because I don't believe the
> begin line is enough to warrent decoding [isn't a MIME header of
> sorts

This is uuencode. It predates MIME. It should be considered obsolete,
and should not be used. But please do not enforce it as several
important people post patches that way.

Pavel

PS: I really prefer MIME, as it is more convient to use with mutt. Use
MIME instead of uuencode if you can, pretty please.

-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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