V4: uuencoded files and Netscape mail

[Julian Field]

Well spotted. Fix will be included in the next V4 release.
In the mean time, it's a tiny change to Message.pm:

1335c1335,1338
<   $global::MS->{mta}->AddHeadersToQf($this,
$this->{entity}->stringify_header);
---
 >   # Used to do next line but it breaks text-only messages with no MIME
 >   # structure as the MIME explosion will have created a MIME structure.
 >   #$global::MS->{mta}->AddHeadersToQf($this,
$this->{entity}->stringify_header);
 >   $global::MS->{mta}->AddHeadersToQf($this);

At 16:54 14/10/2002, you wrote:
>4.00.0a13-1 - uuencoded attachments don't seem to be properly delivered.
>
>If I do the following:
>
>         uuencode test.txt test.txt | mailx dustin.baer at ihs.com
>
>The email is delivered, but there is no message body shown in Netscape
>mail, although the encoded body exists in $MAIL.  When I bypass
>MailScanner, the body appears in Netscape mail.
>
>If I zip the file and `uuencode test.zip test.zip | mailx
>dustin.baer at ihs.com`, there is no attached zip file, although the
>encoded zip file exists in $MAIL.  When I bypass MailScanner, the
>test.zip attachment appears in Netscape mail.
>
>Results with Lotus Notes r5:
>         - uuencoded zip files arrive as .eml files and have the following
>message above the attached file: "[MIME content for this item is stored
>in attachment $RFC822.eml.  Parsing MIME content failed: Incorrect
>format in MIME data..]" and will display the encoding inline.
>
>Results with Outlook 2000:
>         - uuencoded zip files display the uuencoding inline
>
>Can anybody duplicate any of this?
>
>FYI: uuencoding did work properly in 3.23-4 with Netscape mail, and
>Lotus Notes
>
>Dustin

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