----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Everything is an attachment
> Steve Campbell wrote: > >>I have set up a list that is used for announcements only. There is a list >>of >>members, but only a few can post. No digests, just immediate delivery. We >>have a mixed bag of recipient MUAs here, and although OE receives the mail >>normally, Outlook users receive email with the header only in the body of >>the email, and the real body and footer as attachments. > > > This indicates the list header and footer are being added as separate > mime parts. > > >>I have searched the archives/FAQ for a solution and may have found an >>answer, but am not sure. The FAQ 4.39 seems to indicate no real solution >>other than changing MUA, > > > Or sending a single part, plain text only post in the character set of > the list language (us-ascii for English). > > >>but in >> >>http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg36757.html >> >>the solution was a blank line in the footer. > > > I think you're misinterpreting that post. I think she is saying her > problem was caused by a footer which consisted of only a blank line > and when she removed the footer completely, the problem went away. That's not hard for me to believe (that I'm misinterpretting, I mean). > > >>I have a header with a carriage >>return that forms the blank line. Although this is easy to test to see if >>this is really the problem, is there an easy way to create the separator >>line to allow a blank line between the header and body other than asking >>each poster to remember to put a blank line at the top of the body? I'm >>still not sure why the footer is also an attachment. > > > The blank line is not the issue. If both a header and a footer are > added, either both will be added inline if possible, or both will be > added as separate MIME parts. > > >>I checked the sender's Outlook prefs and checked the "Send as plain text" >>in >>his Contacts for this particular address, but that did not help. Can >>anyone >>think of another place I may need to change something? > > > That should be part of the solution. The other part (at least in > Mailman 2.1.6 and above), is an attempt is made to convert everything > to unicode and then back to the character set of the list (us-ascii > for English). If this fails, an attempt is made to convert back to the > character set of the original post, and if that fails, the header and > footer are added as separate parts. Does anyone have RPMs for something 2.1.6 or greater for an RHEL 3/Tao 1.0 system. I am running 2.1.5 as this seems to be the latest available from the normal yum repositories. Maybe this would help. Are there any gotchas for the upgrade if I find them? > > So the bottom line is the original post must be a single part, plain > text message, and in a declared character set that contains all the > characters used in the message, header and footer. > > If you have set the poster's Outlook to send 'plain text only' to the > list, I suspect the problem may be "smart quotes" or other characters > in the message. I'm still not finished testing, but I did get the sender to receive the header, body, and footer all in one message. He forgot to add the attachment. So the test was a little inconclusive. Thanks for the help Steve > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp