"This is a multi-part message in MIME format"

MJN · ‎26-08-2010

John,
Sorry to be a pain, but any chance you could paste the headers into a .txt file in Notepad (or similar)? The use of PDFs could be masking the problem, for example there is a line break in the MIME header of the 'MIME Silver' e-mail but this could well have been introduced during the construction of the PDF and not be present in the original headers:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----
=_NextPart_e17f01813855aec47aa72e07498a223e"

Copying and pasting directly into a text file ought to minimise risk of these sort of errors being introduced. Ensure that the e-mail body is always posted too (i.e. not just the headers)
Mathew

Bigjohn · ‎21-05-2012

Hi Mathew,
I have tried to upload the files in TXT format but your system will not allow TXT files.
I like your Cat feeder project.
John

MJN · ‎26-08-2010

Ah, okay.
You could just post the headers and body into code brackets - just hit the # button above the message composition window and paste your stuff in between,
By the way, it's not my system!

Mathew

Bigjohn · ‎21-05-2012

Hi Mathew,
I have tried but failed so I am pasteing MIME message straight into this.
John
Return-path: <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Envelope-to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@metronet.co.uk
Delivery-date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:24:45 +0100
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From: "xxxxxxxxxxx@lemo.com" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@lemo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:24:42 +0100
X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on NTLemo-2/CH/LEMO(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at
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Serialize complete at 05/16/2012 11:24:44 AM
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Subject: Re: Quotation - pgm050312x
X-Mailer: iolo System Shield 10.8.4.29
This is a multipart message in MIME format.

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Hi John
Thank you for your email, we will endeavour to reduce the leadtime as =
much=20
as possible
Kind Regards
x

From: "xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@metronet.co.uk>
To: <xxxxxxxxxxxx@lemo.com>,=20
Date: 16/05/2012 10:20
Subject: Re: Quotation - pgm050312x

Hello xxxxxxxxx,
=20
My accounts department confirm you should receive payment in your bank=
by=20
Friday this week.
=20
Do you think the 6 week delivery may be shorter?
=20
Best regards.
=20
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter.
SPAMfighter has removed 331 of my spam emails to date.
Do you have a slow PC? Try free scan!=20
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Hi John
 
 Thank you for your email, we wi=
ll endeavour
to reduce the leadtime as much as possible
 
 Kind Regards
 
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x

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 Best regards.
  
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prichardson · ‎05-04-2007

Thanks,
The way I see it here, MIME Silver.pdf & More MIME today email.pdf should display normally in OE.
The other two are meant to display in OE inline (within the preview pane) in the way you describe they should not be.
Can you confirm this is the case?
If so, the problem is the sender. Both problem messages were generated and sent by Lotus Notes which is quite probably breaking the messages. The two that I feel show normally were generate by two methods other than Lotus Notes.
If this is not the case, we need further examples again.

MJN · ‎26-08-2010

Quote from: Bigjohn
Hi Mathew,
I have tried but failed so I am pasteing MIME message straight into this.
John
<snip>
MIME-Version: 1.0
<snip>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative
<snip>
This is a multipart message in MIME format.

That e-mail is incorrectly formatted, and does not confirm to the MIME spec.
In particular, it is stating that it is a multipart MIME message (i.e. a message with multiple parts, in this case containing alternative versions of the same message (plain text and HTML)) and yet it is not providing a boundary delimiter line in both the headers and the body.
Outlook Express therefore does not know where one body part starts and the other stops so it is taking the easy way out and displaying the whole thing as one. As you say it appears clearly in webmail so one can only assume that it must be taking a step further and working out where the seperation lies.
Unless the boundary reference is being stripped out (unlikely) then I'd say it was a Lotus Notes issue i.e. a problem with the sender's client. Ordinarily I'd say that was unlikely too given this is simple stuff, but then the evidence before us suggests otherwise.
Mathew

MJN · ‎26-08-2010

I would also suggest temporarily disabling your e-mail scanning too as it may well be stripping the key headers out (quite why I don't know but it is worth ruling out either way).
Mathew

Bigjohn · ‎21-05-2012

Hi Phil and Mathew,
Many thanks for both your input. I am now going to view all emails in WEBMAIL first. If I see an email from the people I know have sent previosly with the Message about Mime before I down load to my OE I will disable my incoming email scanning and see what happens when it comes into OE and I will let you know the results.
Many thanks again and you have restored my faith in customer support and suggesting that it is not my system that is causing the problem. I did not want to have to go to all the agro of rebooting the hard drives with a fresh start.
John

Bigjohn · ‎21-05-2012

Hello Mathew and Phil,
I got my friend to send me the email again with and without email scanner on.
With email scanner on which was yesterdays email I got all the usual rubbish but this morning I got him to send the email again, I turned my email scanner off it came into OE perfectly clear. I have pasted the two headers here. Is this enough to make a conclusion it may be my anti virus email scanner?
E mail scanner OFF
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RPMozley · ‎04-11-2011

The email scanner seems to be adding an extra Content-Type tag to the header, as "text/plain"!
No wonder it's messing up.

That's RPM to you!!

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