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<4f13bd37$0$2541$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr>, Rick
Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/01/2012 22:21, Ken Wright wrote:

> >> In my experience these are never worth recovering
> >> anyway.
> [...]
> > Thanks, Russell, for your input.  I know that there are
> > definitely no graphics in these email attachments, only
> > text.

> Some smartphones (mine included) send messages in Base64
> format as a matter of course; however there should also
> be a plaintext version, or otherwise the message is
> gibberish to anybody that doesn't have a suitably
> equipped email client.

As I already observed, 'smart'phones are really bad at this.
Fortunately the phone I use for e-mail is a now ancient (ie
<6 years old) Nokia 9300i which has seriously bad e-mail
software in all sorts of ways, but it does allow you the
choice of sending just plain text, or text + HYML, or just
HTML. And the only things it base64-encodes are documents
that I have attached myself.

> This, I presume, is progress.

;-)

> I believe that in some circumstances (kanji in messages?)
> the Android mail software sends out *only* the encoded
> part, as the message body, with no text equivalent. I
> guess they've not heard of the =XX way of MIME encoding?
> Either way, it seems to be a matter of style over
> substance. Never mind that poor JGHarston can't read it
> on his Beeb, you can use COLOURS dammit! Yeah... useful.

Yes - sometimes I get cutsomers who have managed to
interleave their answers to a number of questions I have
raised with them (Hooray), but explain at the top that their
answers are in red to help them stand out...

Trying to explain to people the '>' is what automatically
gives the colours gts nowhere.

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Russell
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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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