Attachment support in MacSOUP

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

Hey there,

I seem to be having a very annoying problem, whereby PC users who
receive mime encoded attachments sent via MacSOUP cannot open them. I'm
not sure if this is related to Stuffit Expander not being able to
extract some attachments sent to me, that I save as text files and drag
and drop onto Expander. Any link?

Anyway, sending the exact same mime attachment with other software works
fine for the recipients. Just not if I drag and drop it into a MacSOUP
message. Why is that?

I can provide additional details and sample attachments on request. I am
using MacSOUP 2.5 on a Rev c iMac running MacOS 8.6.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
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[tim lindner]

Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> I seem to be having a very annoying problem, whereby PC users who
> receive mime encoded attachments sent via MacSOUP cannot open them. I'm
> not sure if this is related to Stuffit Expander not being able to
> extract some attachments sent to me, that I save as text files and drag
> and drop onto Expander. Any link?
>
> Anyway, sending the exact same mime attachment with other software works
> fine for the recipients. Just not if I drag and drop it into a MacSOUP
> message. Why is that?
>
> I can provide additional details and sample attachments on request. I am
> using MacSOUP 2.5 on a Rev c iMac running MacOS 8.6.
>

Since MIME attachements require a special header (to denote the MIME
seperations), I would assume MacSOUP is stripping that header on a
forward.

But this is pure speculation on my part.

I just UUEncode anything I want to attach, and copy-n-paste it into the
message.

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tim lindner
[email]tlindner@ix.netcom.com[/email] Bright

[Stefan Haller]

Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> I seem to be having a very annoying problem, whereby PC users who
> receive mime encoded attachments sent via MacSOUP cannot open them.

How do you send MIME encode attachments with MacSOUP? MacSOUP doesn't
support this (yet).

If you encode the files yourself with something like mpack, and then
drop the encoded file into a MacSOUP message, it's no surprise that it
doesn't work. MacSOUP labels the message as plain text, so the receiver
will see all the MIME encoding garbage.

It's just not possible to send file attachments with MacSOUP, sorry. In
the rare cases where I need to do it myself, I usually resort to Eudora
or Mail.


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Stefan Haller
Berlin, Germany
[url]http://home.snafu.de/stk/[/url]