Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!vaxnix!ron
From: ron@vaxnix.tandy.COM (Ron Light)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: [encode] bug?
Keywords: elm encode
Message-ID: <10334@vaxnix.tandy.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 89 17:16:58 GMT
References: <299@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: ron@vaxnix.UUCP (Ron Light)
Organization: VideOmega Inc. - Ft. Worth Texas
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In article <299@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
>
>Frequently (but not always) when I receive mail that has been [encode]'ed and
>supply the correct key, only the first line is correctly decrypted.
>
>ELM 2.1 PL1
>
>Any ideas?
>


I have seen this same thing happen (I use [encode] excessively) and I know for
a *fact* that it is in the encoding stage that the error occurs.  Sending one
[encode] piece of mail to several different machines of different operating
operating systems to various people who use various versions of elm, will cause
*all* of the received mail read by elm 2.1 or elm 1.5 to behave the same,
first line ok, rest is gibberish.

HOWEVER, it appears that the *sender* has to be using *1.5*.  I have not
observed this when the sender is using 2.1

It would be interesting if Mr. Miller could go back to some of these messages
and see if the sending version was restricted to 1.5