[mso] FW: Some things I've learned...

From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 02:13:39 -0500
...and they might be usable to others here.

First, the UUEncode solution for Outlook XP works wonderfully if:
- you don't want to send HTML
- you don't want to send RTF (the source of all those TNEF encoded
winmail.dat atachments
- you don't mind never being able to un-TNEF another attachment sent to
you. Yes, that's right, the only reliable TNEF decoders out there exist
for Macs, Unix systems in general, Java and Linux. If you're on a
Windows box you're basically SOL. All those decoders exist because TNEF
is such a mess. Pretty incredible for something that stands for
Transport Neutral Encoding Format. Neutral, my aching posterior!

But, all is not lost. First thing to do is to disable UUEncode again.
Once you do this, XP may start attempting to throw those damned line
breaks back in to the plain text message stream which results in those
darned = characters showing up on this list. You can prove this to
yourself by setting the default outgoing mail option to Plain Text Only
on the Tools->Options->Mail Format->Internet Format page. Simply change
the "automatically wrap text at" value at some incredibly low number and
watch those equals signs pop up in your next message to this group.

So, if this message survives the translation across the freelists
server, I'll share the ultimate answer with you. If not, I'll keep
studying and bore the group with the info later.

Cross 'em if you got 'em!

Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com 
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"



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