[pmmail-list] Thunderbird vs. PMMail (was: alright, I've had enough ...)

[Steve Marvin]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:05:03 +0200 (MES), L.Willms wrote:

>On Sun, 15 May 2005 17:08:24 +0200, Robert Dahlem wrote:
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>  Besides, Thunderbird has problems with attached (embedded) messages. 
>It doesn't show those sent from PMMail, because PMMail encodes every 
>attachment with "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64", what it shouldn't 
>do according to the published MIME-rules. All other eMail clients which 
>I had the chance to test with did decode such embedded messages without 
>problems (The Bat!, Outlook, Outlook Express, KMail (Linux/KDE), 
>T-Online Webmail). 
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I don't see anywhere in the rfc's applicable to mime that rule out the
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64". base64 is one of the listed
encoding mechanisms in rfc2045 and in fact it designates this mechanism
as the default handling method for binary data. It would seem to be a
problem of Thunderbird's if it cannot handle base64.

  I have no devotion to or issue with any of the email clients mentioned
including Thunderbird, just putting in my 2 cents for posterity.

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