Warning re. obscure reformat fwd mail with attachment

I recognize that pine isn't going to be fixed, and I'd go so far as to
suggest my older version of pine may have been fixed.

But this issue has certainly made me look quite unprofessional.

The result, which I found in the sent-mail folder record, was that the
forwarded mail and my cover note were all flowed together into a single
paragraph.

I'm using Dice to look for a new project or job. When I find a posting of
interest, I use the Dice 'Apply' function to send my resume and a cover
note and also send a copy to myself. In some cases, I then forward a copy
of the mail sent by Dice to another email address.

When in the pine composer, the forwarded cover note and my added comment
all appear as they always do when I forward using pine. Reasonably neat,
individual paragraphs, etc. The resume attachment is preserved.

Today looking in the sent mail log folder, I discovered the problem noted
above. I've conducted a number of experiments to confirm that forwarding
the Dice apply confirmation, with or without adding a comment and also
removing the attachment always results in the whole email flowed into a
single paragraph during send and save to the mail folder.

It looks like what happened is that Dice sent the original email as
text/html with appropriate <br> tags to force new lines. When pine
forwarded the mail, it retained the text/html content type, but
didn't include <br> tags. So the receiving rendering engine says
to show the whole thing as a single paragraph. When I look in the
physical sent mail folder, I find text/html as the content type but
only \n between lines.

Any way I can't currently use alpine, but I wanted to warn any residual
pine users that some of their mail may not be received the way it was
sent.

Dave Morris


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