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We're running CDE 1.0.2 on some Solaris 2.5.1 machines.  I've installed all
the recommended patches, plus a few others, minus 103461 (the one that
breaks everything).  A problem has recently been noticed and, as far as I
can tell, has always existed.

Outgoing email created with dtmail has a MIME type of "application /
octet-stream".  But it's just normal text, no attachments.  I even have that
silly "strict MIME character encoding" turned on -- there's no documentation
on what that /does/ but it's apparently all that allows the POP3 users to
read any dtmail-generated stuff.

Unfortunately, users outside our system can no longer read messages, since
they aren't being labeled as "text/plain".  How do I force a "text/plain"
tag on all the messages that are, in truth, plain text?

Our thanks for any tips.  DejaNews didn't have anything, so we broke down
and posted here.  :-)

Luck++;
/dev/phil

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Some results of more experimenting...

+ [to c.u.cde and c.u.solaris, followups to c.u.cde]
[snip]
+ Outgoing email created with dtmail has a MIME type of "application /
+ octet-stream".  But it's just normal text, no attachments.  I even have that
+ silly "strict MIME character encoding" turned on -- there's no documentation
+ on what that /does/ but it's apparently all that allows the POP3 users to
+ read any dtmail-generated stuff.

Discovered that the problem only exists when using dtmail under Sun's native
piece-o-*sendmail.  When sending from dtmail on an equivalent machine
using the real Berkeley sendmail, the messages are correctly labeled as
text/plain.  Still working on this one...

Any tips are still appreciated.  (Replacing the Sun sendmail on the problem
machine is not exactly a viable solution in this particular situation.)

Luck++;
/dev/phil

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