On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:20:08 EST, you said:

> This note is in MIME format.  If you can see this line,
> then you are either NOT using a MIME-capable mail reader,
> such as MailBook, or this note was mangled by a bad
> gateway or list server.

The basic problem is that the MIME multipart/* types require the
ability to represent a totally null line to seperate the sub-part
headers and body.  There are ways to "fudge" this for the main RFC822
headers for normal mail (basically, pretend the first line with just
one blank is the "null line"), but this doesn't generalize well to MIME
support, where you have to worry about *arbitrary* null lines - and the
possibility that somebody actually *meant* to have a line with one blank
in it.

I remember that I went around and around with Eric on this many moons
ago, and he made a code change for 1.8B on Unix that let MIME attachments
work much better - I have no idea if it ever made it into the VM code.
(The problem was that the base Listserv code always smashed a null line
to a one-blank line for VM's benefit, even if not needed under Unix).
If this change is in the VM code, you *might* get it to work correctly
if SMTP/LMail/Listserv/Mailbook are *all* configured to use NETDATA rather
than PUNCH.  I can't speak for certain, because we're slowly migrating
from the 3090 to a Unix server/Mac client environment, and MIME on VM was
seen as a "non-issue", so I never worked hard to get it working on VM...

Good luck...
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech