Con Wieland wrote: >I am having trouble understanding what is going on with the >attachments and archives. I have a message being sent to the list >that appears to be text with a pdf attachment. With Mac mail I >receive it as expected showing both the text and the attachment. When >I go to the archives though I get the message text plus > >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ >20080415/846539df/attachment-0002.html >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: jeffrey_vallance.pdf >Type: application/pdf >Size: 161144 bytes >Desc: not available >Url : http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ >20080415/846539df/attachment-0001.pdf >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ >20080415/846539df/attachment-0003.html
So, it looks like the message structure is something like multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain (the plain text you see in the archive) text/html (the html version which is attachment-0002.html in the archive) application/pdf (the pdf attachment which is attachment-0001.pdf in the archive) text/html (appears to be a (empty) footer added probably by the sender's MUA. This is attachment-0003.html in the archive) >My questions are, why am I getting the html attachments? Because the sender's MUA is sending them and your content filtering is either not on or is not removing HTML and not collapsing alternatives. >and why >are they jibberish? They are not gibberish. They are HTML shown to you as raw rather than rendered HTML. The attachment-0002.html appears to be an announcement for "Beyond Field: A Guide Through Practice and Discipline" which is what I assume the original plain text is too. If you visit that link (<http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/20080415/846539df/attachment-0002.html>, and copy the text and paste it into a file named xxx.html and open that file in a web browser, you'll see a rendered version which is probably what you saw in your mail client rather than the plain text. -- 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