(Perhaps I shouldn't post this to -devel, but I find this problem quite alarming and thought others should be aware of it)
I have recently discovered that if I send mail from my work computer (SunStation) using Netscape 4.05 to my home computer (Debian slink) that if I reply to the message, the original message is sent back _instead_ of my reply. This _only_ happens if "Send HTML as default" is turned on in Netscape and I select "Send both Plain Text and HTML" when prompted sending the original note in Netscape. If I just send a plain text note, this doesn't happen. I always send plain text, but I have received and replied to notes from others that don't and now suddenly am quite concerned if the original sender received my reply. Anyway, it seems that somehow either pine and/or smail sees the html as an attachment and then sends that back instead. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there anything I can do about it? One more thing: the only difference I can see in the headers of each note is the "Content-type" (below). From the first note, all I received back at work is the original note. Alternatively, perhaps some mime program I have installed is causing this - any ideas? Any help is very much appreciated. Cheers, Colin. ------------ header from message with both text and html >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 13 16:03:43 1998 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from bank-banque-canada.ca (really [140.80.199.51]) by telmer.com via in.smtpd with esmtp id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca id <13448>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:07:54 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:25 -0400 From: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Fwd: test with html] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------221473FEDC0D4053D64BE2DD" -- Colin Telmer Debt Management Section, Department of Finance Phone: (613)992-9107 Visiting at the Risk Management Unit, Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada Phone: (613)782-8662 [Part 1.2, Text/HTML 10 lines] [Unable to print this part] [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:54:03 -0400 From: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: test with html reply to test On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Colin Telmer (DoF) wrote: > test with html > > -- > Colin Telmer > Debt Management Section, Department of Finance > Phone: (613)992-9107 > Visiting at the Risk Management Unit, > Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada > Phone: (613)782-8662 > > > -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com> [Part 2.2, "" Text/HTML 10 lines] [Unable to print this part] --------------------------------------- -------------------- Header with just plain text >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 13 16:03:17 1998 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from bank-banque-canada.ca (really [140.80.199.51]) by telmer.com via in.smtpd with esmtp id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:57:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca id <13451>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:08:11 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:48 -0400 From: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: second test Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit second test -- Colin Telmer Debt Management Section, Department of Finance Phone: (613)992-9107 Visiting at the Risk Management Unit, Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada Phone: (613)782-8662 -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.telmer.com>