Re: [Asterisk-java-users] How to pick up the phone?

[Chad K. <ch...@cm...>]

Stefan Reuter wrote:

> p.s. what is this crap at the end of your messages?
> 

He's using Outlook+Exchange, and it decided to base64 encode his entire 
message (his client is probably set to use "Rich Text" messages by 
default) without using MIME multipart.  SourceForge tried to add their 
advertisement to the bottom of the message, but since it wasn't in 
base64, it got decoded into gibberish.

It's also why his replies all have winmail.dat attachments.  Gotta hand 
it to Microsoft sometimes -- they take an apparently simple task and 
make it complex.  This particular (mis)behaviour can be configured on 
the server, where you can tell it to convert Outlook-specific Rich Text 
messages to plain text.

I would suggest not using Rich Text format in general when sending to 
internet recipients because any attachments have a tendancy to get 
wrapped in the TNEF 'winmail.dat' file, and end up unreadable for 
non-Outlook users.  Plain text or even HTML format doesn't have this 
problem.

Chad Kitching