Re: [OT-ish] HTML being filtered?

2000-05-31 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 13:01:46 -0500, Aaron Schrab wrote: > At 11:12 -0500 30 May 2000, Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > an RFC (about multipart or MIME, I can't remember exactly) suggests > > that the last text/plain part be shown if all of the parts are of the > > same type. Pleas

Re: HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Alex Lane
Thanks to all who answered my question. Gee, mutt is even better than I originally thought! Cheers... -- Alex Lane * Webster, Texas, USA * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.galexi.com/alex/ DH/DSS PGP keyID: 0xD94803CD -*- RSA PGP keyID: 0xCABD6FF9 It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one

Re: [OT-ish] HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Aaron Schrab
At 11:12 -0500 30 May 2000, Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > an RFC (about multipart or MIME, I can't remember exactly) suggests > that the last text/plain part be shown if all of the parts are of the > same type. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Actually, mailers are supposed to prefer

Re: [OT-ish] HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 30-May-2000, Lars Hecking wrote: > > Which get's even more interesting when you have a mailing list > > processor which attaches it's own signature as text/plain in the > > same multipart/alternative. You see only the signature. :-( IIRC, ezmlm does this. The reason you only see the signature

Re: HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Even majordomo can be configured to allow attachments - and multipart/alternative, however unacceptable, is an attachment and does not violate the RFCs (strictly speaking). Not violating RFCs does not stop html mail from being a pain in the ass ;) -s Lars Hecking proclaimed on mutt-users that:

Re: HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Lars Hecking
> Which get's even more interesting when you have a mailing list > processor which attaches it's own signature as text/plain in the > same multipart/alternative. You see only the signature. :-( Such software is obviously broken. But I'd probably consider a mailing list processor broken that le

Re: HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2000-05-30 10:54:47 +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote: > I guess that it was a multipart/alternative post where each of the > body parts (in this case of types text/plain and text/html) is an > alternative version of the same information. > > Mutt will only show you one of the parts of a multipart/al

Re: HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 19:55:23 -0500, Alex Lane wrote: > Recently, a gentleman made a post that was so flamed. In reviewing the > post, I find no html code in the thing, no message from mutt that I > oughta press 'v' to view an html-encoded message, nothing. > > One clue that makes no sense to

Re: HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Dave Pearson
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 07:55:23PM -0500, Alex Lane wrote: > One clue that makes no sense to me is that the offending post on the list > was a multipart post, one part text; the other, html. An examination of > the entire (?) message shows no multiple parts. > > My read of the manual (1.2) fails

HTML being filtered?

2000-05-30 Thread Alex Lane
The general opinion of HTML posts on one of the lists I subscribe to is pretty low, to the extent that folks who post using HTML get flamed pretty well. Recently, a gentleman made a post that was so flamed. In reviewing the post, I find no html code in the thing, no message from mutt that I ought