Re: +net help line.


"pmj" <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:fRa%f.52158$wl.1920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your eMail Client *should* have not shown you the MIME Headers,
but should have Interpreted it all, showing you the Contents
of each "MIME Part"according to what's specified *by* those Headers...

Well it wasn't just the bit I quoted, the whole e-mail was like that -
gobbledegook


I dunno why they are using "Base64" Content-Transfer-Encoding
for a MIME Part that has a "Content-Type" of "text/plain" though!!!
That seems a bit weird, but it's perfectly possible.

Anyway, the way the MIME Headers get Interpreted by the Mail Client,
but *only* if they are Syntactically Correct & properly Formatted.

*Leading* Spaces at the beginning of Lines make a big difference.
If there is no Leading Space, then the Line will be counted as another
Header, but if there *is* a leading Space, it will be counted as a
"Continuation" of the previous Header Line.

If you Copy & Paste what's below, which I have Copied from what you
Posted, (inbetween, but not including) the <quote></quote> Lines,
into a *Text* File & then Save/ReName it as an .eml File, it will
actually then Open up OK as an eMail in OutLook Express - notice the
Leading Space(s) at the beginning of the "boundary=" Lines, which
seem to be missing from what you Posted

Yes, well I didn't post the whole lot cos it went on quite a bit

I just doing that & from that we can see that all that "dXNlcm5h..."
etc, stuff actually Translates (when *Un*Base64 Encoded<g>) into...

<quote>
username: theholt


PlusNet is evolving - in an evolving
</quote>

The EMail Client does the Base64 handling stuff Automagically,
by itself, provided the MIME Headers are correct.

Well it didn't, so I guess they weren't

Did you look at the eMail using the "View Message Source" Window?
or by Opening it up in the Preview Pane (or normal Message Viewing
Window)?

I double clicked on the message to open it and also looked at it in
message source - just the same

Doesn't look as if I missed much though

--
Barb








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