[lbo-talk] Emailer setting request

Matt lbo at beyondzero.net
Wed Jun 11 06:53:52 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >I don't have html on, just Yahoo plaintext. jks
>
> That's what you may think! Turning on Eudora's "blah blah blah"
> feature one sees:
>
> At 8:08 PM -0700 6/10/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> ><x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset=""><DIV>I
> >don't have html on, just Yahoo plaintext. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Doug

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Actually Justin's messages are formatted in a proper fashion. They are actually multipart messages, as one can see from this header from his original note:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1904656574-1055300921=:42177"

His mail program sends a multipart message, with the first part being plaintext, and the second part being an html markup, which is what you quoted above. I'm not sure why your Eudora doesn't just display the plaintext part. But my mail program, mutt, displays it fine, and shows the html part as an attachment that I can view if I so desire.

Certainly if he could ditch the html part altogether that would be preferable, but there *is* plaintext there.

FYI: I am not sure who runs the mail server on which the list resides (Jordan?), but there are various tools to "defang the mime", e.g. strip out html. MimeDefang is a set of perl scripts that I use with sendmail to do that sort of thing (as well as fight spam).

Matt

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