[imp] Attachment problem

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Juergen Froehler <Juergen.Froehler@kunz-informatik.de>:

> I have the following Problem with some Attachements/Mails.
> System : Suse EMailserver II and IMP 2.2.6 
> Client: Windows NT 4.0 and IE 5.5
> 
> take a look on the Sources.
> 
> ---- Source -------
> From: Direction <direction@xyz.com>
> Reply-To: "direction@xyz.com" <direction@xyz.com>
> To: "'juergen.froehler@kunz-informatik.de'" <juergen.froehler@kunz-
> informatik.de>
> Subject: TR: Aufstellung Rohpapiere
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:44:24 +0200
> Organization: XYZ
> X-Mailer: Messagerie Internet de Microsoft/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211
> Encoding: 37 TEXT, 1869 UUENCODE
> X-MS-Attachment: PSEC01.xls 0 00-00-1980 00:00
> -----end------------
> 
> How you can see, there is a MS-Excel File attached, but IMP display the
> attached File shown now as a txt File???? and without a Name.
>  
> -----snip----
> Antwort-An "direction@xyz.com" <direction@xyz.com> 
> Betreff TR: Aufstellung Rohpapiere 
> Teile  1 [keine Beschreibung] text/plain 115.54 KB  
> -----snap---- 
> 
> it seems to me, that the problem is the "UUENCODE".
> 
> Any hint ??

Fix whatever client sent that attachment. Uuencoding is ancient, non-standard, 
innefficient, etc...

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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