[s-cars] Mime Format

Dan Simoes dans at audifans.com
Fri May 10 15:47:59 EDT 2002


audifans mailman is patched to strip out mime and produce plaintext.
I haven't seen any problems on any mail clients yet.

Charlie Smith wrote:
>
> Earlier, Mark Pollan wrote:
> >
> > I'm getting quite a few messages in Mime format which my "mail reader" does
> > not recognize.  I use Outlook.  Is there a setting I as the receiver need to
> > change or will those messages just go unread by me?
>
> I think some of the list mail is being sent in a peculiar fashion.
> It may be how the list responds to mail sent to it.  Looking at
> the email headers I see some unusual header lines:
>
> x-plaintext: Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative
>    ...
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Which makes the following line show up at the beginning of
> emails from the list:
>
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>
>   ------------------------
>
> I'm running mailman here, and it doesn't generate these headers:
>     x-plaintext:
>
> My mailman server does generate a header like this:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> My mailman server seems to be user-friendly to all the subscribers.
> I wonder if the audifans "x-plaintext" header is causing this?
>
>     - Charlie
>
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