[Xitami] PHP/Alias Issues

Brian {Hamilton Kelly} xitami@lists.xitami.org
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 19:31:03 GMT


In message <8884F496D8BBE84F9E8885E9D6A714B803C835@asi-server.asi.local>
   "Michael Morris" writes:

Please take care how you post your messages to this (and other) mailing
list(s).  Somehow or other, a plaintext message ended up being encoded as
a binary (possibly because you're using UTF-8 character set?)

> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

This is probably the fault of
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3

Even worse, Exchange stuck the whole content in there again, this time as
a winmail.dat file:

> Content-Type: application/ms-tnef;
> 	name="winmail.dat"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Sadly, that "transport-neutral encapsulation format" is FOUR TIMES the
size of the (already needlessly) encoded plain text.

[I can't understand how this message got through to the list at all; ISTR
that it is supposed to discard messages that contain binary parts.]

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919