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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 04:06:14 GMT
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- From: Ned Freed <NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: a1mail / message router and pmdf-mr
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
- In-Reply-To: Your message dated "Mon,
- 18 Jan 1993 15:58:11 +1000"
- <1993Jan18.155811.289@vulcan.resmel.bhp.com.au>
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- > We recently upgraded vms from v5.4-3 to v5.5-2, as well as pathworks ( v4.1 to
- > v4.1-2) and a1mail (v1.1 to v1.1c), before the upgrade our pmdf/pmdf-mr
- > software successfully transported binary attached message from/to
- > a1mail/message-router, since the upgrades, our pmdf users can only receive
- > contents-type of TEXT/PLAIN for the cover note (which is ok) and
- > APPLICATION/VMS-RMS for the attached articles no matter what those articles
- > have been tagged with.
-
- The rules PMDF uses are simple: a DECBODY7 Message Router bodypart is converted
- into an APPLICATION/RMS MIME part. Nothing else will receive this treatment.
-
- I therefore can only conclude that for some reason parts are being sent as
- DECBODY7 where previously they were sent as something else. This is totally
- under the control of the posting agent; in this case MailWorks. You'll have to
- look there for additional information.
-
- I note in passing that DECBODY7 and APPLICATION/VMS-RMS are the only reasonable
- things to use for binary attachments. I therefore don't see anything wrong with
- how things are working now, unless you're talking about non-binary attachments
- being handled this way.
-
- > The messages seem to be have the correct tag stored in
- > the header after it has been accepted and placed in MR's message area (MA and
- > FOREIGN). Any ideas on where to look would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I believe this indicates that the part is a DECBODY7. PMDF-MR will convert this
- to APPLICATION/VMS-RMS; always has, always will.
-
- Ned
-