Re: email not readable with RISC OS

On 6 Sep 2018 Philip Draper  wrote:

> I think this must be a Mess Pro problem. I have the current version.

It's probably down to foreign mail clients and webmail systems not 
following the standards as well as MPro does, particularly as regards 
generating a proper text/plain section.

> I've just had an email from a friend in answer to one of mine. On looking
> at it in Messenger all I get is 'sent from my new Samsung Tablet'.

It looks like the message has a default text/plain part containing only 
the signature file. I've seen plain text parts containing html 
with/without proper page headers, or just css stuff. MPro treats what's 
labelled as plain text as plain text.

> As usual with emails sent from other OS, it also has attachments: Untitled
> (a text file), Email/htm and Re_new...030920/eml (interpreted by Messenger
> as a Data file; the 'Re_' is the subject of my original email).

This looks like it's one message wrapped in another, and it's the 
attachment that contains the important stuff.

> The Text file and the HTML file both display just the 'sent from my new
> Samsung tablet'. The Re_ file (opened with Shift double click) has two
> blocks of code. The headers seem to be intact: the whole document has
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed.
> One block of code has
> Content-type:text/plain; Charset-=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding:base64
> The other block of code has the same except
> Content-Type: text/html

Save the raw message and drop it onto !Attacher. That should decode and 
extract the Base64 parts.

> Puzzle !: I note that if one saves an email out of the Messenger Incoming
> mail display the saved file is given type eml. But if I try to change the
> filetype  of my Re_ file I'm told that this filetype is not recognized.

Eml isn't a valid RISC OS file type. Try &B86. Then you can drag it back 
into your Messenger window.

> Transferring the Re_ file to my PC using the Uniprint system opens it in
> Notepad, displaying exactly what RISC OS displays.

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