Re: [CSCMail-Users] HTML & attachment problems

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Psy was overheard mumbling something about this on 13 Sep 2000 15:17:40 -0300

> Hello all,
>  
>  I've just installed the latest stable version o CSCMail (1.6.1). It was
>  really the only e-mail program I've seen that's really functional in
>  Linux/Gnome, congratulations :) But I ran across some problems:
>  
>  First, I cannot see HTML mail, I can only see the source:
>  

Thats a multi-part issue...

>  ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C016C3.B6761680
>  Content-Type: text/html;
>	charset="iso-8859-1"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>  
>  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>  <HTML><HEAD>
>  < ... (etc) ...>
>  </HTML>
>  
>  I've installed Gtk-XmHTML, I've tried to install also GtkHTML but I had
>  some compilation problems and I gave up. But shouldn't it be working
>  whith only GtkXmHTML?
>  In the gnome-perl distribution, I can run `make test`, select "Gnome
>  HTML" and it work's fine.
>  
>  I'm having problems with attachments also, sometimes CSCMail recognizes
>  them but most of the time not. I receive just this: 
>  
>  
>  ------=_NextPart_000_0088_01BBF778.595CA2C0
>  Content-Type: application/msword;
>	name="questionarios.doc"
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>  Content-Disposition: attachment;
>	filename="questionarios.doc"
>  
>  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
>  
>  ------=_NextPart_000_0088_01BBF778.595CA2C0--
>  
>  
>  0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAA
>  (etc, etc)
>  
>  
>  When I select "save" or "view" attachment nothing is displayed.
>  What could it be? Can it be some installation problems? Any help would be
>  appreciated :)

More of the same problem...

Here's the deal, 1.6.1, with SOME mail servers, chops off the first line of all
incoming messages.  This throws off the MIME decoding, and since the message
doesn't get properly decoded, HTML mail etc. doesn't work right... This has
been FIXED in 1.7.x ... so I suggest you download the tarball from
Sourceforge...

>  developers: Keep the good work!
>  
>  thanks :)

Thank you!  I am rapidly approaching a 1.8.0 release (I know, I have said this
many times...)	I just started working at (surprise) Mail.com and so I am doing
a ton of mail related coding these days.... My co-workers are all keen on
CSCMail, and so things are rolling right along (notice the commit today? hehe)

-CZ