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Hello, If you have issues reading the list emails, or ensuring successful posts read on. If you have no issues, go to the next email. We have had various issues of late comprising the following 1. member's posts rejected "Message rejected by filter rule match" (a dead-ringer for emails with no plain-text content 2. members posts don't (disappears into black hole) 3. members unable to read posts without hunting through a tree of attachments for one that works We have 3 mailing lists which have been instituted at different times and with different settings as they resided on different hosts set up by different people and subject to occasional adjustments by yours truly. There are two ways that we try and accept all messages and render them readable by all the diverse email clients used out there. Firstly we can try and delete unwanted stuff and than massage the balance into plain text format Secondly, we can enforce a plain-text-only format where any email with anything other than plain text is rejected, obviously this would be more painful. I have just looked at the three lists and ensured that the settings are identical and that the first method is implemented with the default settings. ie back to basics which I hope will improve matters. We need you to please ensure that your email client is set to plain text. As part of its plain to ensure total hegemony over the internet Microsoft email clients (Outlook, Express) are set with html as a default setting. Please check that this has been changed. There are two options. 1. The properties of any given email address in the address book can be set to disable anything other than plain-text. Thus html, multipart, and all like features can be disabled. This probably is effective where you start a new message to this list getting the address out of the address book. When answering a list post I am not so sure what it does, it should be smart enough to pick that up, but who knows? 2. Somewhere you can set that no emails whatsoever leave your copy of Outlook or Express in any format other than plain text. If you don't send fancy email, why not make life easy and just disable the whole bundle of M$ frippery for good? If you send out emails from your system to the list with background images, pictures, various logos, expect that such posts to the list are likely to be mangled and in any case are often illegible to other recipients I will monitor carefully what I see, what the list does, what complaints I receive and will act accordingly. Posting to wrong addresses is a common cause of unhappiness email to these addresses [email protected] (the 'Sender', not the 'From' address) [email protected] (me) [email protected] (part of the magic) will not reach the list and the first two are likely to end up on my desk. If you see them, stay away. CHECK THE 'TO' address when you make a reply to a post. DON'T click on old email headers to start a new unrelated post. The address of the list is given at the bottom of the post. [email protected] and is a good place to click to start a new email If you have trouble and I ask for a copy of the rejection notice then please forward this _as_ _an_ _attachment_ . Somewhere even M$ will include an option for you to start a new email with an old one 'attached' in rather the same way as you attach a picture. The default 'Forward' where the original is quoted within the new one is definitely not what I want because it does not include the original headers. If you want to know what 'headers' are, most email clients will show you with Ctl-H , or else check the help file. Some email clients have special menu items for mailing lists. Check these out. Hope this helps. Ian ---- Ian Balchin Fables Bookshop, 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139. Tel/Fax: +27-46-636-1525 Web page URL: http://www.fables.co.za Mailing list: http://lists.imaginet.co.za/mailman/listinfo/fables-list Founder Member SABDA. GPS location. 33.31126 S 26.52428 E _______________________________________________ booklink-list mailing list provided by SABDA. booklink-list mailing list Mail to: [email protected] Info at: http://mail.sabda.co.za/mailman/listinfo/booklink-list_sabda.co.za Archived posts now available from: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
