Re: replying to text/plain base64

On 17 October 2007 at 1:43, [email protected] wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:38:24 PDT, Kevin Cosgrove said:
> > This is a multipart MIME message.
> > 
> > --==_Exmh_10285909160
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Hmm.. wonder how that got there? ;)
> 
> > But, my base64 is a text message from someone's Blackberry.
> > Both people who send me email from Blackberries come across
> > this way.  There are no pictures in the emails I'm dealing
> > with.
> 
> But your mail *still* triggers the issue - you had an
> attachment, so when I do a 'reply', all the MIME stuff gets
> included.  Yeah, *your* attachment was a dozen lines of
> text/plain.

The email messages I'm trying to reply to, the ones that come
from my friends' Blackberries, are almost always 5-10 lines of
text, and nothing but that, no attachments.  But, those lines of
text are text/plain and base64 encoded.  That's my rub.

> Unfortunately, the attachments I get tend to be 624 page PDF
> files or Microsoft Office documents or similar, and when you do
> a 'reply' to get the "Here's the document" line so you can add
> "thanks, got it" and hit send, you *also* get the base64 mess
> of all 624 pages of PDF.

Bummer dude.  Surely those PDF or Office files aren't text/plain,
only base64, right?

I'm still searching for a recipe to reply to something that's
both text/plain and base64.  My workaround is just to use "Cite 
Selection" from sedit's "More..." menu.

Cheerio....

--
Kevin