[6614] in SIPB bug reports
Re: error exmh 1.6.7 5/3/96
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Dec 17 19:52:11 1997
To: Carlos A Araque <araque@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jmorzins@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:43:02 -0500."
<199712172143.QAA13427@m4-035-8.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:52:00 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Carlos A Araque <araque@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> I was trying to send an attachment of a word document to myself as
> a test by following the procedure described in OLC help (sending
> binary files over email) and this box popped up. I couldn't get to
> do it.
>
Hm. That shouldn't have happened.
Can you send me (jmorzins) more details? Two things which would be
useful are
(1) can you get it to do this again? (Just follow the same
procedure you did before, and tell me if you still get
the error.)
(2) can I see the file? If I try to reproduce this, it would
help if I both knew what the file looked like, and knew where
it originally was underneath your home directory.
A messy way to send the file to me is to 'add mime', and then run
the command:
mmencode -q FILENAME | mhmail jmorzins@mit.edu
This will mime encode the file, and send me a stream of text which
I will be able to turn back into a copy of the original file.
(Note that this is in general not the right way to send binary files
to people through email, since the stream of text generally can't be
decoded unless the recipient can figure out exactly what command you
used to send the mail to them. In this one special case, though, I
know the command you're going to use, so it will work out.)
Thank your for your bug report. I'll look into why this happened.
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
