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Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook

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In <sf0vi9$vcd$1@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net> by Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:55:32 we perused:
*+-On 8/11/21 10:50 AM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
*+-> Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"

*+-:-(

*+-> looks like mime without a start-mime header

*+-I've run into something that might be described that way form Microsoft 
*+-email programs a handful of times over the last few years.

*+-I found that the associated headers that I would expect to be part of 
*+-the mime separator either were completely absent /or/ they were encoded 
*+-as part of the base64 encoded blob.  (I don't remember which it was 
*+-specifically.)

*+-> Any way to read the message:

*+-I was able to manually decode the base64 blob and access things correctly.

*+-This seems like a standards violation to me.  But it's not happened 
*+-often enough for me to find, chase, much less tilt at that particular 
*+-Microsoft windmill.


Many thanks


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Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2021-08-11 16:50 +0000
  Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-08-11 10:55 -0600
    Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2021-08-12 04:21 +0000
      Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-08-11 22:45 -0600
        Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-08-12 10:21 +0300
  Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook Claus Aßmann <INVALID_NO_CC_REMOVE_IF_YOU_DO_NOT_POST_ml+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@esmtp.org> - 2021-08-12 06:17 +0000
    Re: Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-12 07:09 +0000
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