Language and English - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Jan 2002

On Jan 7, 16:05, Dan Wright wrote:

...
  real problem is that outlook is brain-dead...  The
message is sent as
 mulipart/MIME, with the first part being the text of the message and the other
...
  part being the signature.  Clearly outlook doesn't
understand how to process
...
  MIME the right way; it should recognize that part 1 is
plain text and display
...
  it, and that part 2 is something it doesn't know
about.  I've talked to others
...
  (not on this list) about it, and the only mailers that
seem to have this
 problem are 1) outlook, and 2) some e-mail appliances. 
Nope, zmail and MediaMail both see it as multipart but don't see the first
part as the main text part, so they don't show the text straight off, just
a multipart attachment.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York