Re: [Tools-discuss] double new lines in drafts sent via e-mail

This is probably getting a bit off-list, but I think a clarification 
is deserved..

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, stanislav shalunov wrote:
> "Alex Rousskov" <rousskov@measurement-factory.com> writes:
>> I am not sure why extra line breaks appear in the case quoted
>> below. Using  Pine, I have never had that problem with
>> attachments. Perhaps others know  what is going on here. This is
>> something we may want to check for the  email interface of the ID
>> submission tool...
>
> Messages from john.loughney@nokia.com seem to be generated with
> Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0.  If they are stored in DOS format
> locally, the DOS newlines are probably encoded by the client *if* the
> draft is sent in base64 rather than quoted-printable (or with no
> protection).
>
> At this point, draft-savola-ipr-lastcall-04.txt is a deletion notice,
> so it's difficult to see what was going on.  I don't have a message
> with an attachment from John Loughney, either.

The quoting was probably a bit off; the problem was with my 
attachments.  I'm sending them off from a Linux system, using pine, as 
Alex is using.  The versions which I put on my local web page are just 
fine, but the result that the secretariat posts is mangled.  So 
something is happening between when I attach the draft and when the 
secretariat posts them.

Pine sends the attachments in base64.  I've looked at the actual 
attachment sent, and undecoded it manually, and it has ^M sequence at 
the end of lines.  The originals are available at 
http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/ietf/.  I've also temporarily zipped up 
one of them to preserve the control characters.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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