What is the default encoding Tools, Options, Read, International Settings?
and Tools, Options, Send, International Settings?
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Ronald Sommer
"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eeOWvHOXIHA.1168@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Is there a MIME expert out there who can help me understand why some
> e-mail
> newsletters I receive are not displaying properly in WLMail?
>
> The newsletter's designers are clearly struggling to get it right, but I
> have a feeling that the problem is at their end and not with WLMail. The
> message is single-part HTML, and displays perfectly in Yahoo's web
> interface. However, all I get in WLMail is garbage as shown in the
> screenshot.
>
> The relevant headers are:
> ...
> mime-version: 1.0
> from: *****
> to: *****
> date: 22 Jan 2008 00:55:07 -0500
> subject: *****
> content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> content-transfer-encoding: base64
> Message-ID: *****
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2008 05:55:08.0542 (UTC)
> FILETIME=[5804F9E0:01C85CBB]
> Content-Length: 17958
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> ...
>
> It looks like WLMail is trying to decode the characters following the
> Content-Length header from base64, but because they are not encoded to
> start
> with, the result is garbage. They also tried using QP a few weeks ago,
> with
> bizarre results. Is there any need to encode at all, when the body is pure
> HTML? Or
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> Noel
>
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