Re: {bb} Strange problem with notification emails

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:14, H. Wade Minter wrote:
> Apologies if this comes through twice - I sent it out yesterday  
> morning but haven't seen evidence that it made it to the list.
> 
> I just set up bb1.9h on a SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 box.  Everything is  
> working well except the email.  It's not coming through as text, but  
> instead showing up, in both PINE on a Unix box and Apple's Mail.app,  
> as an unknown MIME attachement.
> 
> In PINE, the body shows up as:
> 
>      [ Part 1, Application/OCTET-STREAM  158bytes. ]
>      [ Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file. ]
> 
> If I save the message to a file and look at it, it's the expected BB  
> notification, but with DOS-style line endings.  Looking at the raw  
> mail, it looks like a normal email, but with the ^M's at the end of  
> the line.
> 
> Any ideas on what, if anything, in BB could be sending out mail like  
> this?

Nothing. BB just sends text and knows nothing about MIME. The usual
suspect is a "brain dead" Exchange server somewhere along the way.
Excahnge can be even more annoying then the infamous "Office Assistant"
:(

> When I did the BB configuration, I chose "linux" as the OS  
> type.  If I send mail from the SuSE box with the Unix "mail" command,  
> mail comes through fine.
> 
> I'm attaching a copy of the, er, attachment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wade


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