09-30-2005
You weren't sending the message using MIME. The format is very different and the encoding is Base64 not UUENCODE.
Your mail client doesn't even have to interpret this as an attachment since uuencoded messages are just text anyway. The mail client has to guess at the file's format when it determines that a uuencoded message text is found. MIME is also converted to text but doesn't have to guess what the file format is since it's specified in the MIME header. You can define your own MIME message segments but they are simply painful. I needed to do this many years ago when email clients were less sofisticated but now it's really not necessary.
You can get a basic idea of MIME's complex structure
here.
Last edited by tmarikle; 09-30-2005 at 12:51 PM..
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