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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:19:10 +0000
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: in -current is svn still canonical?
Message-ID:  <20201117131910.GA46155@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <cmu-lmtpd-61535-1605605146-0@flynn.in-addr.com>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 09:25:32AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from Warner Losh and my last message:
> 
> > > Thanks for the information, but if you feel the need to send me a
> > > not-quite-CC, please don't send me the multipart/alternative version when
> > > you send the plain-text version to the list.
> 
> > > I hate multipart/alternative!
>         
> > I must apologize. Sadly, I use gmail, so I have no control over how it
> > decides to encode things, sadly. I've tried in the past, and alas, nothing
> > I've tried works for any length of time. Please forgive me whatever
> > unspeakable MIME atrocities it sends on my behalf. I've removed you from
> > the cc line in the hopes that the FreeBSD mail server cleans things up to  
> > be more to your liking.
>         
> The message on the list had only the plain-text part.  Either you sent it differently, or the list server stripped the HTML attachment.
>         

The mailing list software is set to strip all non-plain-text content.  This
is why you sometimes see mails with no body content.  The sender sent a mail
which only had a HTML part and it was stripped, and without an alternate MIME
part there was nothing to send.

Regards,

Gary



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