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Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept.

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In article <5251e8d819see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
   Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
> In article <52519842eckcwright@ormail.co.uk>, Ken Wright
> <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> > In article <5250df9be0riscos@mdharding.org.uk>, M Harding
> >    <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> wrote:

> > > In article
> > >    <52508ca0a1see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>,
> > >    Russell Hafter News
> > >    <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:

> > > > In article <5250877b6adave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave Symes
> > > > <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> > > > > In article <52505e1f8ariscos@mdharding.org.uk>, M
> > > > > Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> wrote:

> > > > > [Snippy]

> > > > > > I received an email response but this was
> > > > > > unreadable in Pluto: the body of the email was
> > > > > > blank, and there was an HTML attachment of
> > > > > > computerese gibberish [ . . ]

> > > > > [Snippy]

> > > > > Michael, Alan's detail is the simplest way to get
> > > > > the job done, so try that as first choice.

> > > Yes Alan's method (thanks, Alan) worked.

> > <snip>

> > My apologies in getting to this thread a bit late.  I've
> > had the same problem as Michael only his attachments
> > appear to have remained attached to the email whereas the
> > ones I receive are not attached but the gibberish appears
> > in the body of the email after any email text. How do I
> > recover it as an attachment?   

> In my experience these are never worth recovering anyway.

> I increasingly get e-mails which, although they do contain a
> plain text version, also contain an HTML version which
> includes a corporate logo and/or the senders signature in
> digitised form.

> Sometimes these are referred to in the e-mail by an absolute
> link eg <http://www.corporateserver.com/logo.png>, but more
> often they are sent as part of the e-mail, usually as a
> JPEG. E-mail software on other platforms displays the HTML
> version of the message, inserting the graphics where
> required.

Thanks, Russell, for your input.  I know that there are definitely
no graphics in these email attachments, only text.

> RISC OS e-mail software just displays the actual message,
> usually all that you want or need to know, and, if possible,
> everything else as attachments.

> However, Pluto, at least, appears to have problems at times
> with these sorts of e-mails.

It appears so.

<snip>


> On 2 March last year, Matthew Phillips wrote a very detailed
> and clear description
> <1911e2ad51.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> of how
> attachments work.

I'll have a look at that and see if I can glean some info...

> He explained that attachments can be nested. I suspect,
> though this is just gut feeling and I have done nothing to
> test it, that when Pluto gets an e-mail made up as follows,
> using Matthew's description

> 1) a text/plain e-mail message
> 2) an image/jpeg picture
> 3) an image/gif graphic
> 4) an application/pdf PDF document,

> then all is fine.

> But when attachments are nested, as Matthew described:

> 1) a text/plain e-mail message
> 2) a multipart/mixed structure, containing
> 2a) the HTML version of the message
> 2b)
> 2c)
> 2d) etc. the JPEGs, GIFs etc to illustrate the HTML version.

All possible except 2d.

> I suspect that Pluto gets its knickers in a complete twist,
> with parts of the e-mail appearing in the text window and
> parts as attachments.

Many thanks once more.
Ken

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Pluto & BBC complaints dept. M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-01-12 11:30 +0000
  Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 12:32 +0000
    Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 18:57 +0000
      Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-13 09:22 +0100
        Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-13 09:46 +0000
  Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-12 16:24 +0000
  Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-01-12 19:02 +0000
    Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-12 19:58 +0000
      Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-01-13 11:04 +0000
        Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-13 12:03 +0000
          Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Dev <spam-addy@no.spam.invalid> - 2012-01-13 14:04 +0000
            Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Richard Travers <richtnews@uwclub.net> - 2012-01-16 10:27 +0000
              Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-16 11:36 +0000
        Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Ken Wright <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-01-14 20:41 +0000
          Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-01-14 21:21 +0000
            Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Ken Wright <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 21:03 +0000
          Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-15 11:22 +0000
            Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Ken Wright <kcwright@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-01-15 21:21 +0000
              Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-16 07:01 +0100
                Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-01-16 08:52 +0000
                Re: Pluto & BBC complaints dept. Jess <phantasm_39@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-24 11:23 +0000

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