[LINK] Fwd: Re: Eudora/Droid issue

[Jan Whitaker]

This problem may be of interest to linkers. To have a new email 
system not include all the components required seems a bit odd.
Jan


>>"Gibberish from Motorola Droid"
>>http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=14833
>
>I have been seeing the same problem in Eudora reading mail from aol 
>servers with message id's of the form: Message-ID: <x at email.android.com>
>
>The relevant header sub-block shows, eg:
>
>>Message-ID: <56ioyy3keu1538af9078kra6.1268751525026 at email.android.com>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
>The Mime header is missing.
>
>The messages are readable in Thunderbird, downloaded from the same 
>server.  But when the Thunderbird source is selected (^U) the body 
>is unreadable exactly as in Eudora.
>
>How widespread is this droid missing-header problem?  How widespread 
>is the use of the software?  Is there only one source for the 
>software with this problem?  Are they refusing to fix it?
>
>The thread at http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=14833 
>stating that the RFC requires the header was written in 2006 -- has 
>it been changed to optional since then?


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