[arachne] Re: My misbehaving ISP (base64 test)

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

Hello Joe

As long as your message comes as MIME multipart with two base 64 encoding parts (one text file and one winmail.dat file) seems to be no problem here with Mozilla Thunderbird

I can see from the headers that you are using Microsoft Exchange as mail server. Maybe this is the misconfigured one.



da Silva, Joe wrote:
Apologies in advance if this is unreadable ...
Well, Sam, in answer to "Maybe Joe could explain why he's doing",
I'm tempted to say, RTFM, where in this case, the M stands for
"message(s)", since I have explained the situation many times
already, and am getting rather annoyed at people suggesting I use
a different e-mail client.
So, for the last time: This problem with freelists is NOT caused by
my e-mail CLIENT, it is caused by the Symantec firewall software
that our IT people run on our e-mail SERVER. This is not something
that I have any control over. Sometimes this works out, sometimes
it doesn't.
Apologies for getting stroppy.
Joe.

________________________________

From: arachne-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Sam Ewalt
Sent: Thu 29/09/2005 5:43 AM
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [arachne] Re: My misbehaving ISP



Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:10:16 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:


When my ISP auto-converts the base64 messages to 8 bit they
become unreadable.



Are there other people here who are also experiencing a similar
problem with their ISP's in the case of messages posted to the
list by Joe da Silva?




There would be no problem at all if Joe just used any one of
a myriad of email clients (there must be dozens and dozens of
email clients for every imaginable platform) that sends plain
old ordainary text like a reasonable person would have the courtesy
to do if he was interested in actually communicating with us
Arachnoids.

Email is not difficult. Why make it frustrating by using a
javascript enabled web browser to send messages that can't be
read?

I just don't get it. Maybe Joe could explain why he's doing
what he's doing. I'll assume that he has his reason, even if
he's never bothered to clue us in about this.



Arachne at FreeLists
-- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --



------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This email (including any attachment) is confidential. If you are not the 
intended
recipient, you must not disclose or use this email or the information
contained herein for any purpose. If you have received this email in error, 
please
immediately advise us by reply and delete this email. This email may not be 
altered,
forwarded or re-issued without our consent. The Bayard Metering Group is not
responsible for any changes made to this email or the effect of any changes to 
the
meaning of this email. It is the responsibility of the recipient to scan this 
email
for viruses and faults prior to processing. The Bayard Metering Group shall not
be liable for any loss or damage caused by this email from transmission,
viruses, faults or the use of data accompanying this message. The Bayard 
Metering
Group reserves all its rights, including copyright, in this email.



Arachne at FreeLists
-- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --

Other related posts: