Re: MimeMap being silly.

On 22 Oct 2013  "David J. Ruck" <druck@...> wrote:

> On 21/10/2013 18:33, Peter Young wrote:
>> Today I've had a message with two .docx files attached, and one of
>> these has the correct type and one has the filetype data. This latter
>> one will happily open in EasiWriter once I've given it the correct
>> type.
>>
>> Is there a logical, and perhaps remediable, explanation of this weird
>> behaviour? Is it relevant that the sender uses Yahoo mail, perhaps?

> Save the raw messages, then look for the context type lines just before
> the attachments, post those lines here.

Thanks to Richard, David and Steve for the replies. I've looked at the 
header, which is full of gobbledygook such as:

 s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk;
  h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:Fr 
om:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type;
  b=24U4o6eiR2mNfUkYW5ajoZUSiZlAlKs/c0yNt6R/NuzeM9PbacjuloqoKYrnVbNzNe 
R87VZ8JWEl8VpzjfBOX/szlrOfGJBFpFN4bZUroVJDoMItLQGTnJj4K5FfhRfp3WLvt0ph2VgnoRK5sr 
QV586zswhadZrPYKWhW3NzkFI=;

but the relevant lines seem to be:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

immediately before the actual message.

At any rate, I'm happy that it's the sender's problem, not mine!

With best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc W) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung@...

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