Bertram Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Hello, I just picked up a CMBB PBEM game with Ossi Tapio. Trouble is that his e-mails arrive fine, but the attachments get lost on the way. This goes for all kind of attachments: .txt, but also .jpg and .zip are tried. He receives mine ok. Trouble comes probably from the fact that he is using a Linux based browser (Pine), and I am using WinXP with Outlook. They dont play nice together . We both have other PBEM games running with no problems. I looked up this problem with the search function, as I remembered it being a point at the release of CMBB. Sure enough there were some posts about it, but no real solution. One remark was about a securit setting in the mail program, but this was for Outlook express under Win98, and didnt fit my system. Any suggestions? Bertram 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 No, that works fine. I send my PBEM moves from a Unix mailer, too. However, he could nuke the attachments if he uses an MTA on his local machine before it goes to his provider. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 MTA?? Bertram 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogface Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 mail transfer agent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Yeah, sorry. On Windows you always let your mailer send directly to your ISP. On Linux it is more often the case that you run the server program to redeliver mail yourself, which then gives your stuff to the provider. I suggest you just CC me on one of the moves. Then I can say whether it is missing the attachment or whether the attachment is corrupted. Then you know whether to blame Linux or Outlook. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 I asked Ossi to send you a mail. My mails reach him fine. Bertram 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 The mail I received contains a valid PBEM turn without any visible corruption. However, although I could read the attachment, it is unusual. It is base64 encoded although it is a text file in first place. That is not neccessary but doesn't do harm. However, the attachment is also having an empty "Content-Description" field. That could receving mailers ignore this attachment, or display it in some nonobvious form since usually the contents of this field are used to present the attachments for selection by the user. Pine should probably be told to insert the filename as the Content-Description, that is what everybody else is doing. Content-Description: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Boredmeijer_Sippa_001.txt [ September 03, 2006, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Redwolf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 I looked somewhat deeper in the file I received, and there is no text file (or other) attached. My mail provider (@home.nl) does have an automatic scanner service. It is probable that not recognized or labled attachments are stripped... Waiting to see if Ossi can get his Pine to name the files . Bertram 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Yeah most like your provide stripped the attachment because it doesn't have a Content-Description: label set. Still, it's their fault, they shouldn't strip it if it is there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 It is of course a trade off between protecting stupid users against virusses and malware, and more tech savvy users alone to exchange strange files without headers . As 99.9% of the files exchanged will be regular formats with headers I can not really fault them. I havent received a single virus for over 3 years.... (now for a way to keep my inbox viagra free... ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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