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mr.MikyMaus

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 285

claws-mail won't decode some OE originated attachments

Hi!

The problem: When reading a mail with an attachment(s) sent by Outlook Express (and only OE so far) I get text this instead of an attachement:

begin 666 file_name
M+TUO9$1A=&4H1#HR,# W,#,P-3(R,C S-"LP,2P,"I+U1R87!P960O1F%L  
MV4^/@UE;F1O8FH-')E9@T*," T#0HP,# P,# P,# P(#8U-3,U(&8-"C P
M...
M... (lots of such "garbage")
M...
M,# P-#8X.3@@,# P,# @;@T*,# P,# T-CDT." P,# P,"!N#0HP,# P,#8R  
M-S4P(# P,# P(&X-"G1R86EL97(-"CP\+U-IF4@-#X^#0IS=&%R='AR968-
-"C$Q-@T*)25%3T8-"@``
`
end

As far as I can tell, only OE originated mails do that, and as far as I can remember any and all such attachments were unreadable.

It should be some sort of MIME code, but I do not know much about this so feel free to enlighten me ;-)

What may and may not be important is that all such messages were in fact news (nntp) messages. I cannot remember getting an OE originated mail directly through smtp (maybe I'm just lucky enough :-) ).

Claws-mail has an ability to "look at" the message through many encoding schemes (8bit, uuencode, Base64, quoted-printable) and I've tried all of them. Obviously, none worked.

The header says just:

Path:***********!not-for-mail
From: *************
Newsgroups: ************
Subject: ****************
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:45:06 +0100
Organization: **************
Lines: 1426
Message-ID: ********************
References: **************** ************** ************* ************ *************
NNTP-Posting-Host: ******************
X-Trace: *********************
X-Complaints-To: ***************
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:45:09 +0000 (UTC)
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response
Xref: *********

Claws-mail version: 2.8.1 (latest from Arch repos)

Can anyone at least point me to the right direction? ;-)

-miky

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