Re: [exim] Outlook confuses EXIM + SA

am 04.04.05 13:32 schrieb Marc Sherman:

> Peter Velan wrote:
>>
>> Ok, thanks for answers regarding the mail-header. But there's no
>> 'Content-Type', no 'charset' and no 'Content-Transfer-Encoding' in the
>> header. Then, could above body easily be decoded by popular non-MS MUAs?
>
> By assuming the default values.
>
> The "garbage" you include there is a uuencoded file; back in the old
> days, the mua wasn't responsible for decoding that at all, but rather
> the user would recognize it themselves and pipe the mail through
> uudecode to get the Gemm.pdf file. Many MUAs now recognize a uuencoded
> file included directly in the body of the message, and interpret it as
> an attachment.

Aah, thanks Marc. I assume, "begin 666" in the line
> begin 666 Fax DAK Gemm.pdf
triggers the MUAs decoder (presumably 666 stands for uuencoded) and the
"end" on last line stops it. Am I Right?

Peter