RE: [SL] latex dilemma & blank emails

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Dieter,=20

Guess the default settings for up to date versions of Outlook (security
patches applied)
are probably the cause: Attachments that MS considers harmfull are
disabled by default
(.exe, .vbs et all). It is even possible to set security to maximum,
thus disabling=20
ANY attachment from entering the inbox. The new XP firewall might also
cause problems.
My personal workaround for mails from Linux to Win and vice versa is via
MSN / Hotmail.
They even scan for viruses for you ;-)

Feel free to send any testmails / attachments to drd...@ho...
(winxp) AND drd...@ms...
I will be happy to compare notes.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sql...@sq...=20
> [mailto:sql...@sq...] On Behalf Of=20
> Dieter Simader
> Sent: vrijdag 5 april 2002 19:13
> To: sql...@sq...
> Subject: Re: [SL] latex dilemma & blank emails
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> brackets and slashes are not in the conversion filter and=20
> caused a latex error. This is all (?) fixed in 1.8.4
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> I uploaded an upgrade file for 1.8.3 in the meantime until I=20
> release the new code.
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> The blank emails are a case of MS Outlook not being able to=20
> decipher BASE64 attachments. I am not sure what it is. I used=20
> the old BASE64 code from the Mailer package at CPAN. This=20
> works fine for pine and Netscape.
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> It would be nice to have feedback from the community at large=20
> if this is just an isolated case or if everyone using MS=20
> Outlook has problems with this.
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> I had a discussion over this with Ralph Dorr who experienced=20
> the same problem. I had no problems receiving his email=20
> attachments but he could not read the attachments from=20
> SQL-Ledger nor could he read attachments sent with pine. So,=20
> I concluded that this is not in the code but must be=20
> something with Outlook. Perhaps a wrong setting or perhaps MS=20
> is telling the whole world again you better conform to their=20
> standards. Wouldn't be the first time.
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> Dieter Simader    http://www.sql-ledger.org   (780) 472-8161
> DWS Systems Inc.     Accounting Software       Fax: 478-5281
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D On a clear disk you can seek forever =
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> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Keith Mastin wrote:
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> > I didn't have any non-alphanumric characters in the product=20
> numbers,=20
> > but do have some brackets and slashes in the product=20
> descriptions...=20
> > no underscores or hashes though.  Postscript to screen still gets=20
> > dvips errors (haven't got to that yet) but pdf to screen shows=20
> > something... included below.
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> > HTML email is still blank. Printing doesn't do anything, but that=20
> > could be an unrelated issue.
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> > Is there anyone on the list with printing and html email=20
> working? (I'm=20
> > looking for a touch of hope here).
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> > Thanks
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> > %PDF-1.2
> > %=C7=EC=8F=A2
> > 2 0 obj
> > << /Type /Pages /Kids [
> > ] /Count 0
> > >>
> > endobj
> > 1 0 obj
> > << /Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R
> > >>
> > endobj
> > 3 0 obj
> > << /CreationDate (D:20020405100106)
> > /Producer (GNU Ghostscript 5.50)
> > >>
> > endobj
> > xref
> > 0 4
> > 0000000000 65535 f
> > 0000000068 00000 n
> > 0000000015 00000 n
> > 0000000117 00000 n
> > trailer
> > << /Size 4 /Root 1 0 R /Info 3 0 R
> > >>
> > startxref
> > 204
> > %%EOF
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> > Quoting Dr Default from [05/04/02 14:24 +0200]:
> > > Tip for user-friendly update: Have the 'add part' routine=20
> check if=20
> > > any # in description and kill it ;-)
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: sql...@sq...
> > > > [mailto:sql...@sq...] On Behalf Of=20
> > > > Carey Durbin
> > > > Sent: vrijdag 5 april 2002 13:58
> > > > To: sql...@sq...
> > > > Subject: Re: [SL] latex dilemma
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> > > > I too was getting this error when trying to print. I figured
> > > > it out this morning. I=20
> > > > had the # sign in one of my part descriptions. Latex did not=20
> > > > seem to like it for=20
> > > > some reason. I removed it and it works correctly now. Go figure.
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> > > > Carey Durbin
> > > > CD Computer Systems
> > > > E-Mail: cd...@sy...
> > > > Web: http://syscon.mine.nu
> > > >
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