On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:17:53 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 29/09/2011 2:34 PM, Mad Cow wrote:
In g.com, Wolf K
writes

Exactly, the header for the message says "mime", but the header for the
jpg file says "uuencoded by..." That mismatch between header and segment
is what causes the problem.

I'll file a bug report, maybe someone in the TB group will notice.

Have a good day,
wolf k.

Wolf, what does Thunderbird do that indicates it's expecting a MIME
attachment? Does it give any information other than failing to decode?

And am I right in assuming you can decode Joevan's and Pat's pictures?

It just fails to decode. Joevan's and Pat's pictures decode correctly. I
see an image in the message pane, and also as an attachment (the file
name displays in the attachment bar). In this case, your pictures did
not show as attachments. Tbird obviously believes the message header
(which identifies the encoding as mime), and not the file header (which
identifies it as uuencoded). So it doesn't even try to decode the image
file.

Don't worry about it, Sue, I'm quite willing to do the Save As then Open
thing.

TBird cannot combine multi-part files, which is occasionally an issue.
It's also unreliable when decoding yEnc encoded messages, which doesn't
bother me.

Have a good day,
Wolf K.
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