[imp] MIME and misc. weird encoding formats

Sameh Ghane sw@anthologeek.net
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:30:00 +0200 

Hi,

Is there any reason why an email with 
Content-Type: text/html in its headers is not displayed in HTML ? I get this
kind of code:
&lt;HEAD&gt;<br />^M
&lt;META CONTENT=&quot;text/html; charset=iso-8859-1&quot;
HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type&gt;<br />^M

So that the HTML source appears clearly, which is not really usable.

Any idea why the various decoders don't handle this ?

Another topic, I have weird encodings, like this:


User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509
^ I don't even know what this software is
Subject: FW: ZODIAC SIGNS.ZIP
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="B_3113384090_2478960"


> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

--B_3113384090_2478960
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3113384090_2478960"


--B_3113384090_2478960
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit



--B_3113384090_2478960
Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>FW: ZODIAC SIGNS.ZIP</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>


--B_3113384090_2478960--


--B_3113384090_2478960
Content-type: application/zip; name="Zodiac Signs.zip";
 x-mac-creator="5A495020";
 x-mac-type="5A495020"
Content-disposition: attachment
Content-transfer-encoding: base64

UEsDBBQAAgAIAA4AGy01F1kRrTkAAKE6AAAWAAAAWm9kaWFjIFNpZ25zL2FrcmVwLmpwZ427


IMP is unable to let me download anything but the first part (the HTML stuff).
What's wrong here: IMP or PEAR'mime decoder ? And how can I tell ?

Cheers,

-- 
Sameh