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adam - 21 Jun 2004 03:57 GMT
Hi All,

Suddenly (last few weeks) any mail sent from Apple's Mail app that has
any type of attachment at all arrives in my inbox as inline ASCII
text. I still get pdfs, jpegs, gifs etc as per normal from any other
client software - only attachments sent by Apple Mail are munged. The
message copy also loks strange from Apple Mail showing "=20=" at the
end of every line etc.
This problem has only reared it's ugly head in the last few weeks -
until then all was fine.

The following is an email from a friend using Apple Mail - this
happens with every attachment sent to my Eudora 6.1.1 by Apple Mail.
I'm running OS X 10.3.3. All other emails with attachments come
through just fine....

The problem seems to be that the content is displayed inline.
I've tried downgrading Eudora, resetting my settings to default,
changing settings and having the sender compress the files - all to no
avail.  Is there an X-Setting I can use to stop this behaviour?

Anyone else seeing this?
Have I missed an obvious setting somewhere?

thanks
adam.

--Apple-Mail-3--318230347
Content-Type: multipart/appledouble;
  boundary=Apple-Mail-4--318230347
Content-Disposition: inline

--Apple-Mail-4--318230347
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/applefile;
  name="ETA Cards2.pdf"
Content-Disposition: inline;
  filename="ETA Cards2.pdf"

AAUWBwACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAJAAAAPgAAAAoAAAADAAAASAAAAA4AAAACAAAAVgAAIfpQREYgQ0FSTwAARVRBIENhcmRzMi5wZGYAAAEAAAAhngAAIJ4AAABcAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
etc etc etc
Peter Ceresole - 21 Jun 2004 07:20 GMT
> The following is an email from a friend using Apple Mail - this
> happens with every attachment sent to my Eudora 6.1.1 by Apple Mail.

Is this every attachment sent by *one person* with Mail.app, or are you
getting this problem with Mail.app generated attachments from several
different sources?

Because looking at the headers you sent

> --Apple-Mail-3--318230347
> Content-Type: multipart/appledouble;
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> Content-Disposition: inline;
>    filename="ETA Cards2.pdf"

'base64' and 'Content-Disposition: inline' are specifying inline
attachments. I believe that comes from the other end- it's not your
problem but that of your correspondent's settings.  

I may be wrong, but if it it a problem with one Mail.app user and not a
whole lot of them, then I think their settings are b0rked.
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Peter

adam - 23 Jun 2004 03:07 GMT
> > The following is an email from a friend using Apple Mail - this
> > happens with every attachment sent to my Eudora 6.1.1 by Apple Mail.
>
> Is this every attachment sent by *one person* with Mail.app, or are you
> getting this problem with Mail.app generated attachments from several
> different sources?

Thx for the reply Peter.
The problem occurs with every attachment sent from Apple Mail :(

> Because looking at the headers you sent
>
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> I may be wrong, but if it it a problem with one Mail.app user and not a
> whole lot of them, then I think their settings are b0rked.
Peter Ceresole - 23 Jun 2004 09:24 GMT
> The problem occurs with every attachment sent from Apple Mail :(

Well in that case the problem *does* look as though it's at your end,
and the clue may lie in:

>> The
>> message copy also loks strange from Apple Mail showing "=20=" at the
>> end of every line etc.

I can't remember what that signifies- but I believe it means that you
may have the wrong transliteration set.

Do you have 'Eudora standard Tables' installed? They should be inside
your plugins folder, inside the Contents folder of the Eudora
application. You probably know this, but to save time in case you don't,
Ctrl-click on the Eudora application package and select 'Show package
contents'. To install the tables, just drop them into the plugins
folder, then restart Eudora.

I can't remember where I got my copy but try at:

<http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/files/eudtab.html>

With a message open, go to the Message menu, then down to
Change->Transliteration. Try the options, see what happens.
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Peter

JPaul - 23 Jun 2004 22:31 GMT
> >> The
> >> message copy also loks strange from Apple Mail showing "=20=" at the
> >> end of every line etc.
>
> I can't remember what that signifies- but I believe it means that you
> may have the wrong transliteration set.

Quoted printable. See :
<http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1521/6.htm>

       JPaul.

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Peter Ceresole - 24 Jun 2004 00:11 GMT
> > I can't remember what that signifies- but I believe it means that you
> > may have the wrong transliteration set.
>
> Quoted printable.

Asolutely- thanks. I've had that set for so long (in Settings) that I'd
forgotten all about it.
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Peter

adam - 24 Jun 2004 09:43 GMT
> > > I can't remember what that signifies- but I believe it means that you
> > > may have the wrong transliteration set.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Asolutely- thanks. I've had that set for so long (in Settings) that I'd
> forgotten all about it.

Thank you all for helping me with this.

The advice to check my plugins for Translation Tables reminded me that
I had a beta copy of spamnix running (1.2.4 ims). I delted spamnix and
now all attachments are coming through beautifully!

Yay!
 
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