Post by Patricia HughesExactly where does the "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" header
occur? (higher than the very first empty line
after the first bunch of headers, or where else?)
First line after the blank line after the first bunch of headers.
This may be significant.
Eudora doesn't actually show the true "original" message,
precisely as it existed on the POP server (more later about this),
but the set of true "headers" of an original message
is terminated at the first empty line; whatever comes next
is in the "body" of the message, and is not parsed as a "header,"
even if it looks exactly like a header -- for example,
if I copy headers of an original message at the very top
of a new (or forwarded) message that I'm composing to you,
the copied headers are just part of my message text,
and are no longer taken as instructions
pertaining to my new outgoing message to you.
I should perhaps also have asked:
Is there a header anything like the following
within the topmost group of true message headers,
before the first empty line:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=3D"----=3D_NextPart_000_002C_01BFABBF.4A7D6BA0"
If there any such "multipart" header, then the "boundary" string,
with some barely noticeable extra "dashes,"
separates the entire message into "parts";
each "part" in turn then has its own set of headers
(again terminated by an empty line), including
it own individual "Content-Type:" header.
Here's a pretty well written summary of MIME message formats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
Here's another story:
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/html-email-multi.htm
Post by Patricia HughesIs there just one particular sender (or sending domain)
whose messages seem to exhibit this?
There are at least two senders, one is a regular newsletter which used=
to be perfectly readable but became unreadable at the beginning of
December (I've also written to them about it). The other was a one-off=
from Friends Reunited telling me someone had commented on one of my
photos. Other mails from them (different sender) display correctly.
So it's rare, at least, and might, considering the analysis above,
be due to some not quite correct content -- perhaps from
copying one original message into the body of another?
Post by Patricia HughesX-Mailer: SZAKK Hirlevel v2
Is it encoded in UTF-8 for Hungarian?
Eudora doesn't decode UTF-8 (Thunderbird does),
except with UTF8ISO plugin, as you know,
since I believe you installed it this past November, IIRC.
http://www.windharp.de/software/utf8iso.htm
(Thanks for the T.S.Eliot quote, by the way :)
I don't recall whether any headers other than "Subject:"
are permitted to also be encoded in UTF-8,
but I don't think so.
I also don't know whether UTF8ISO acts on message parts
that are sent in base64; I suppose this all depends
both on the capabilities of Eudora's architecture for plugins
and how the plugin author uses whatever capabilities are present
(hopefully Eudora would transparently decode base64 first,
but I'm too lazy to read all the plugin documentation
for developers, which I downloaded but never opened :)
Post by Patricia HughesI have a couple of the "offending" emails both in Eudora
and in TB3 so I can look for differences if that helps.
TB3? In the form of "Eudora 8," I presume?
At any rate, Thunderbird has a "View," "Source" function for messages,
which should, IIRC, be the true exact original message from the POP serv=
er,
before parsing by Thunderbird.
Some "webmail" (peek into POP server) applications
such as http://mail2web.com
also have a "source" viewer.
Any message received at (or pulled into) Gmail
also has "Show original"
in drop-down actions just to right of "Reply"
One could replace some chunks of message body parts (however macabre tha=
t sounds :)
with "[...]" for brevity, but keeping at least all the headers of all pa=
rts,
and perhaps a bit of whatever "body" doesn't look right, and post it,
for further inspection.
Or, email me the entire "source" of some message
(from TB, not from Eudora) as an attached text file,
replacing "nomail.invalid" in my email address with hotpop dotcom
(hotpop, rather than hotmail) -- I could then "inject" this
into my own Eudora, and see exactly what it does with it.
Best wishes.
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