REFLECTOR: .dat attachments for people who send html

[Brian Michalk]

First, thanks for sending in plain text.

Second, yes, I think that in the past, the footers were not a functionality
for MailMan.  Once they added that capability, they found out that some
readers were non RFC compliant.  I would have thought Outlook 2002 would
parse correctly.  However, since HTML is such a loosely typed language,
maybe MS is doing the best they can while supporting as many variations as
possible.  Yes, there may be some sort of configuration to tell it to parse
only W3C HTML.  Dunno, just guessing.

Third, you are welcome.  Donations accepted hehe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
> Behalf Of Phil Hooper
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
> Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: .dat attachments for people who send html
>
>
> Two cents:  I'm using Outlook 2002, XP.  Shouldn't it be able to parse????
> Maybe there is a switch to turn on/off.  Brian, if my memory is
> correct, the
> problem began with the upgrade to the list server software.
> Thanks for you
> service to us all.
>
> P.S.  I'm sending this Plain Text.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Michalk
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:57 AM
> To: reflector at tvbf.org
> Subject: REFLECTOR: .dat attachments for people who send html
>
> A while back some people were complaining about all of the
> attachments that
> come through, only to find it's generic bit of text.  I had a
> private email
> with a person about why it happens, but I thought I'd post it here before
> someone else asked about it.
>
> This link talks about the problem:
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-August/031290.html
> It says HTML is structured, so the appended footer has to go somewhere
> outside of the HTML body.
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-August/031291.html
> Says that if the mail program modifies the HTML in place, then PGP
> signatures will be broken ... a security problem.
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-August/031292.html
> Says, let's make it a multipart section.
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-August/031296.html
> Says ... This is what the mail program already does, except Outlook (the
> recieving) one is buggy and doesn't handle the multipart message
> correctly,
> so it just makes it an attachment.
>
> There are several solutions to the problem:
> 1) Ignore it.
> 2) Upgrade to a mail reader that correctly parses multipart.
> 3) Force all messages to be plain text on the reflector.
>
>
>  Brian Michalk  <http://www.awpi.com/michalk>
> Life is what you make of it ... never wish you had done something.
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>
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