Yummy ideas.

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed May 3 19:25:44 UTC 2006


At 2:25 PM +0930 5/3/06, Tim wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 17:11 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> I can't see his email either.  I use Eudora Pro 4.0.2 on a Mac.
>> Perhaps it is older than the "old and established technique".
>
>Well, even the scummy MSOE from Windows 98 (i.e. something 7-8 years
>old), can manage it (reading base64 encoded message body content).  And
>I've read them on an even older Amiga.  I didn't have any problem
>reading the original mail, that I recall, using Evolution on FC4, nor
>would I expect to.
>
>Can you read base64 encoded mail from other people?

I don't know -- I've looked a bit but I've got lots of email and it's a bit
hard to prove the negative.  His is the only mail that has ever shown up as
a base64 blob.  I see that fedora-list converts most base64-encoded
messages to 8bit, but it doesn't convert his.
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