Are there any 8-bit characters in the message sent, including soft
carriage returns? Some systems automatically send base-64 if they detect
characters that can not be sent as-is via RFC822-compliant messages.

It could also be that one of T-Mobile's Blackberry gateways constantly
sends base-64, while others do not.


>>> [log in to unmask] 3/9/2005 2:35:36 PM >>>
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Kevin Parris wrote:

> Are the problem messages NEW items, or written as replies to other
> posts?  Are the originals, to which the blackberry replies, from the
> same origin?  I'm suggesting that perhaps your sometimes-garbled
results
> may be hailing from origins not necessarily in the blackberry device
-
> just something to think about.

At first we thought that the problem occurred only when he replied to
a
post, but that proved not to be true. Then we thought there was a
line-wrap problem, but that theory also fell by the wayside. Here,
courtesy of my co-owner (who has been working on the problem more
directly
and has subscribed to the digest to monitor it), is what we know/have
tried:

"We already know that ...

   - It's not something that happens when lines exceed any
     particular number of characters. Charlie has tried
     manually wrapping lines at 30 characters.
   - It's not related to replying to a message. I've seen
     the problem when he's replied, when he's created a new
     message and pasted in quoted text, and when he's
     created a blank new message.
   - Every message that comes with a warning that there
     is an error in the headers seems also to be base 64,
     but I believe there have been some base 64 messages
     that had no warning about header errors."

Jane

> 
> >>> [log in to unmask] 3/9/2005 3:13:06 PM >>>
> Yes, but why would one of those messages have looked OK in the
digest,
> while the second one--in the same digest, sent by the same
subscriber
> from the same Blackberry in the exact same way, and going through
the
> same Listserv server to the same recipients' same mail programs--not
be
> decoded? 
> 
> He is happy to make any adjustments that can be made, but we can't
> figure out why his messages sometimes come through just fine and at
> other times are gobbledygook. The same thing has happened with posts
> from another Blackberry user--who, fortunately, posts much less
often.
> I'm guessing that as more people start using Blackberry, this
problem
> will get worse. The posts are fine in the archives, but they sure do
> make a mess of the digests for some subscribers.
> 
> 
>