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Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail?

From Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk>
Subject Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail?
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date 2012-04-05 17:57 +0100
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> [Snippy]
> > I wouldn't know a Base64 encoded e-mail if it bit me. Are there any
> > particular circumstances under which they are sent, just so that I
> > know what I might need to say to the sender, please?

> You could tell them, as I've done with a couple of companies, if they
> continue to send be HTML emails as containers for Base64 encoded mails,
> then I shall cease dealing with them.

Can't reply. It's a noreply address.

> The best ones are after purchasing some software, they send you the
> Invoice that contains the software key to install it, but you can't open
> it because the way it's constructed, so you can't install it.

> And in some situations Attacher doesn't retrieve them either, they have
> to be transported to a PC and opened in Thunderbird, Mess Pro or similar.

Thanks very much Dave. That explains *that* and what you suggest is what I
usually do, but I don't like being defeated, kind of thing.

> The reply from them is always... We are sorry you are having
> difficulties with our postings, but this is the standard way our
> accounts dept send invoices etc... Perhaps you mail software need
> updating.

> Serif is one case in point, the advertising and offer emails from them
> are easy to open, but once you've paid the dough, they start sending the
> HTML container Base 64 types.

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How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-04-03 22:39 +0100
  Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-03 23:20 +0100
  Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2012-04-03 23:37 +0100
    Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 07:16 +0100
      Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 11:29 +0100
        Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 12:44 +0100
  Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-04-03 23:49 +0100
  Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 05:48 +0200
  Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 09:26 +0100
    Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-04 11:12 +0100
      Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 13:28 +0100
  Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 09:30 +0100
    Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Bryn Evans <d@a.invalid> - 2012-04-04 17:19 +0100
      Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 18:28 +0100
      Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 18:31 +0100
        Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 18:49 +0100
          Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Michael Bell <michael@beaverbell.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 06:23 +0100
            Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 08:39 +0100
              Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Rosemary Miskin <miskin@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 19:22 +0100
          Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 10:07 +0100
            Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 10:21 +0100
              Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 12:19 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 13:14 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 13:26 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 14:01 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 14:41 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 15:03 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 16:12 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 17:54 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 16:24 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-04-05 17:33 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 17:57 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 17:55 +0200
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 18:04 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 18:51 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-06 06:10 +0200
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-06 08:58 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-06 08:23 +0200
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-06 09:02 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-04-06 14:34 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-06 16:14 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 13:48 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 13:22 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 14:16 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 14:30 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 14:38 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 16:18 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 16:45 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 14:32 +0100
            Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 10:31 +0100
              Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 13:19 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 14:10 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Rosemary Miskin <miskin@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 19:25 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-05 14:21 +0100
                Re: How can I find out who sent a vastly oversize e-mail? Brian Bailey <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-05 14:40 +0100

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