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2 total messages Started by Graham Jones Sun, 02 May 1999 00:00
Marcel bug: can anyone help?
#47
Author: Graham Jones
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:00
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Marcel (in the ANT Inet Suite) is messing up incoming emails with
attachments. It seems that if the MIME boundary contains equals signs, it
fails to parse them. Attachments disappear, other emails appear as
attachments, etc. I reported this six weeks ago, but apart from the
automatic response saying my report was in a queue, I've heard nothing.
(Note: Argonet have taken over support for the ANT Inet Suite.)

Can anyone help?


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Re: Marcel bug: can anyone help?
#49
Author: Stuart Painting
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 00:00
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In article <ant021925f7fridB@balnakeil.demon.co.uk>, Graham Jones
<URL:mailto:graham@balnakeil.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Marcel (in the ANT Inet Suite) is messing up incoming emails with
> attachments. It seems that if the MIME boundary contains equals signs, it
> fails to parse them. Attachments disappear, other emails appear as
> attachments, etc. I reported this six weeks ago, but apart from the
> automatic response saying my report was in a queue, I've heard nothing.
> (Note: Argonet have taken over support for the ANT Inet Suite.)
> 
> Can anyone help?

One possible work-around is to copy the failing message into a
newly-created (i.e. empty) empty mail folder. This will cut down on
the amount of extra junk you get appended as "attachments" although
it doesn't address the disappearing attachments themselves.

Of course, once you've isolated the message in this way you could
always do a search-and-replace on the contents of that mail folder
to change the MIME boundary to something that Marcel *will* parse,
but that would be a bit of a chore to do for every incoming message.

stuart

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