[arachne] Re: Sorry, it looks like the base64 problem is back! :-(

From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:35:22 -0500

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:20:13 +1000, da Silva, Joe wrote:

> [Attached file: HJ745401.txt]

> [Attached file: HJ745402.htm]

========= begin contents of attached file HJ745401.TXT ===========

Arghh!!!

FWIW, this was the earlier message :

Hi Sam,

Are you saying the attached text file "hj7a8001.txt"
*was* base64 encoded??? I thought that now (at last),
this problem had been overcome (our IT people have
recently upgraded that Symantec firewall stuff). I
thought/hoped the message body was now in plain text,
so that the average reader would be able to actually
read it. Can you please clarify?

Joe.

[snipped all of the appended pompous-assed boiler-plate barratry]

========== end contents of attached file HJ745401.TXT ===============

Yes, indeed it was.  And why do you ask me that question?  You
yourself are also a list subscriber and you should also should be
receiving copies of the messages you are sending.  You can simply
examine the messages yourself to find out how they are coming
through on the list.  BTW, the last two messages you posted on
the list were not seen at my end as attachments.  As seen at my end
they consisted only of a text body composed mainly of garbage upper
ascii characters.  See the attached if you want to have some idea of
how one of your messages looked like at my end.  You should note
that the message headers say that the message was base64 stuff that
was auto converted to 8 bit by "shentel.net".  This is the first time
I have ever received a base64 encoded message that my ISP had
auto-converted to 8bit.  My ISP shouldn't do that.  A program on my
computer is supposed to do that.

Does anyone else on this list have a mis-behaving ISP that is
auto-converting your base64 messages to 8bit?

After you decode the attachment you should save it as a file and
then take a look at it with a hex editor.  You will see that except
for the message headers it is all garbage.

Sam Heywood
-- This mail sent via the Arachne Browser, GPL version 1.83 Beta

id A6F021EF009;
        Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:41 -0500 (EST)
Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1])
        by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
        with ESMTP id 20185-09; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:41 -0500 (EST)
Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP 
id 20EBE1EED6B;
        Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:41 -0500 (EST)
Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list arachne); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:41 -0500 
(EST)
X-Original-To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivered-To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP 
id E92551EEA7F
        for <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:40 -0500 (EST)
Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1])
        by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
        with ESMTP id 20185-08 for <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
        Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:40 -0500 (EST)
Received: from smtp.emailmetering.co.nz (mail.ampymetering.com.au 
[210.23.157.210])
        by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with SMTP 
id 5F0931EE9F2
        for <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:09:40 -0500 (EST)
Received: from ausyd02.ap.bm.net ([10.20.10.22])
 by smtp.emailmetering.co.nz (SMSSMTP 4.0.0.59) with SMTP id 
M2005092619161622539
 for <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:16:16 +1000
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [arachne] dealing with winmail.dat and unreadable email attachments 
(was: coollist gone, freelists available....)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:09:38 +1000
Message-ID: <D89A6299969BE348910AD2C4ACD0CBB1082383@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: [arachne] Re: coollist gone, freelists available.... (was: 
dealing with winmail.dat and unreadable email attachme
ts)
Thread-Index: AcXCeMScwDQERsvKS/aBC4AfAUM9OAAAEBoQ
From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe.daSilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net
X-archive-position: 908
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: arachne-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Errors-To: arachne-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
X-original-sender: Joe.daSilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Precedence: normal
Reply-To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
X-list: arachne
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by norm.shentel.net id j8Q99gIw032380
X-UIDL: D+B"!~[O!!`a0!!b7+"!

¶??w?´ZÞx¸¬¶Ïÿý8^¶??w?jp¥¹¿Ò

[arachne] Re: Sorry, it looks like the base64 problem is back! :-(

Other related posts: