A third alternative solution: Affected Outlook Senders could Change from
Mime to UUEncode, at the Mail/Tools | Options, in the Plain Text Settings of
the Send tab-control. (Although UUEncoded messages don’t seem to be sent at
all these days. I haven’t tried sending with that setting - of late,
anyway.)
The clause: ‘has-attach’ is also present at the ‘Internet Headers for this
message’, in Mark’s and Eamonn’s affected sent messages. (Presumably, that
is the attachment containing the text which are both being stripped out. It’s
up to users of Outlook 2016/Office 365 Outlook to investigate further what
their message properties and the details tab, ‘Internet Headers for thisw
message’ there tell them.)
(Can the program Outlook deal natively with .RTF - Rich Text Format -
files? I think that this may be a – or one root of the – problem.) Do note
that this is different from .HTML files.
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 11:26 PM
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Plain Text Message sent using Base 64 encoding.
Mark’s message in the RTÉ Player thread, was also sent using
Content-Transfer Base64 encoding.
Here’s what I take from it all, thus far at least:
There is still formatting present in Eamonn’s and Mark’s so-called Plain
Text messages, which is seen by another receiver’s Outlook or Freelists.
Between them, they strip out the formatting, rendering that thus-sent part -
Plain Text with formatting and Base64 Content Transfer encoding - of the
message body - lank.
So the affected sender must either clear all formatting before sending their
message, or must switch to either none or quoted-printable, as I have
detailed before.
I guess the most stable setting would be achieved by moving away from
BASE64 – if that is possible. Otherwise, they’ll need to remember to clear
all formatting – backspace out the *^i or whatever might be at the top of
the message they’re about to send – or by clearing all formatting via the
Ribbon button – on a per every message sent to Freelists basis.
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 9:45 PM
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Plain Text Message sent using Base 64 encoding.
Cearbhall,
I’m on to something, but I’m not sure precisely what!
Suggestion: If Eamonn (and any others whose messages are being received as
blank message bodies) would switch their Content-Transfer-Encoding - this
tab is in the Send tab-control of Options - to either ‘Quoted-Printable’ or
‘None’, i.e, away from BASE 64, then there’s a chance their messages may be
readable. At this point, though, this finding is just preliminary, or,
‘Alpha’ quality!
I think with the message you found unreadable, I didn’t ‘clear all
formatting’. (It was sent in Base 64, probably HTML, but I thought it was in
Plain Text. So to make sure, for the message which you fond complete, I did
‘clear all formatting ‘ found the button in the Ribbon and pressed ENTER. I
didn’t receive a warning that some content would be lost, which is what
often happens if you do this in an HTML original message.)
So far, on this list, I haven’t yet come across any other messages than
Eamonn’s sent using Content-Transzfer-Encoding Base 64. Thing is now, to
figure out how affected senders change this setting in ‘Outlook 2016’, to
make it one of the other two settings compatible with [this and other]
Freelistsd. .
From: Cearbhall O'Meadhra
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 9:08 PM
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Plain Text Message sent using Base 64 encoding.
Flor,
This one is coming in complete!
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 8:54 PM
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Plain Text Message sent using Base 64 encoding.
This is a plain text message. The previous one (underi similar subject
line) and which caused Paul D other problems, was HTML. Plain Text and Base
64 are (apparently) settings that Eamonn uses. This is my last experiment
here for now. <Sigh Of Relief>.