Tim:
What I saw was more than "8 characters", did you mean something else?
g:
as i said, '8'. when prompted for entry, i entered 8 characters.
Well, the sample you supplied was certainly more than 8 characters long. Prompted for entry into what?
And it really should be MIME in this day and age
mime is a waste.
No, not at all. With MIME you get information on content encoding and/or content type, identification of the different parts, etc. With other schemes you get random text you have to guess at. We've moved beyond the always-been-hopelessly-inadequate-from-the-start 7-bit text mail, years and years ago.