Re: [hylafax-users] Thunderbird and x-uuencode mail problem

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex wrote:

> Hi, i am using hylafax 4.2.1-1fc3 rpm on fedora core3 and i want to 
> receive incoming faxes by email.
> It looks like hylafax setup defaults to 'x-uuencode' encoding


Actually, it defaults to base64 with mimencode.  But, it probably didn't 
find mimencode on your system and so went with uuencode.  uuencode has a 
base64 option to it, but there was a bug in the 4.2.1 release that 
prevented proper selection of base64 with uuencode.  This has been 
fixed, as well as the addition of support for the base64-encode program.

> (and i've never seen that encoding in a real mail before),


It was popular in the early days, before base64 became popular... 
generally I saw it used on usenet more than e-mail, though.

> and it looks like mozilla thunderbird has problems with it (the 
> decoded file has 0 bytes).


Yes, the Mozilla mail readers don't do uudecoding.

> Outlook express decodes it properly, and setting ENCODING='base64' in 
> etc/setup.cache also works for both...
>
> Anyone knows why thunderbird wouldn't decode this properly?


Feature lack.

Lee.


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