A proper email client (instead of Apple Mail) would be a good start... ;-) Ralf

Apple Mail doesn't seem to be the only software that doesn't know what to do with this type of encoded data. The problem seem to affect the list processor, too, See http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2013-December/040336.html in the archive for reference.

Johannes

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-- Dr. Johannes W. Dietrich, M.D.
-- Laboratory XU44, Endocrine Research
-- Medical Hospital I, Bergmannsheil University Hospitals -- Ruhr University of Bochum
-- Buerkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, D-44789 Bochum, NRW, Germany -- Phone: +49:234:302-6400, Fax: +49:234:302-6403
-- eMail: ""
-- WWW: http://medical-cybernetics.de
-- WWW: http://www.bergmannsheil.de
-- Researcher ID: C-3498-2009
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A proper email client (instead of Apple Mail) would be a good start... ;-) Ralf

Apple Mail doesn't seem to be the only software that doesn't know what to do with this type of encoded data. The problem seem to affect the list processor, too. See http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-pascal/2013-December/040336.html in the archive for reference.

Johannes

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
-- Dr. Johannes W. Dietrich, M.D.
-- Laboratory XU44, Endocrine Research
-- Medical Hospital I, Bergmannsheil University Hospitals -- Ruhr University of Bochum
-- Buerkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, D-44789 Bochum, NRW, Germany -- Phone: +49:234:302-6400, Fax: +49:234:302-6403
-- eMail: ""
-- WWW: http://medical-cybernetics.de
-- WWW: http://www.bergmannsheil.de
-- Researcher ID: C-3498-2009
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FWIW: the displayed block at the URL given decodes perfectly with the MIME decoding URL i gave previously...

i have a sneaking suspicion that some are expecting certain control lines to be in use when they are not required for the given context... but then i'm still learning this MIME stuff and have only some tools at hand to work with and base my understanding on...