Re: Strange new BTS behavior
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:27:54AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Yes, this behavior is the same as the "attachement" you sent me recently.
>
> 1. My setup hasn't changed in 5 years. I pop my mail down from my ISP and
> read it with Pine. I send mail to my ISPs server using Pine's SMTP
> capability, so I have no mail server on my machine.
>
> 2. Something has changed in the way attachements are being handled by some
> mail utility because I still get "useful" attachments properly connected
> to their sending mail.
>
> It seems possible that these "attachements" are not mime encoded so they
> look like a separate e-mail once they reach my box?
They aren't attachments; they're just ordinary text at the end of the
e-mail. It really does sound like something in your setup has stopped
handling mbox properly, perhaps at your ISP's end if you haven't changed
anything?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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