From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 17 20:32:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5B337B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F8643F3F for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:32:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.8) with SMTP id h2I4WARp029255; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:32:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from 192.168.168.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user imap) by www.pursued-with.net with HTTP; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:32:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3432.192.168.168.1.1047961930.squirrel@www.pursued-with.net> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:32:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Email attachments From: "Kevin Stevens" To: In-Reply-To: <004301c2ed06$5eb608d0$0200a8c0@Tower> References: <20030317130504.964.6@wonderland.1047891566.fake> <20030317225824.GA9422@wantadilla.lemis.com> <004301c2ed06$5eb608d0$0200a8c0@Tower> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello, > > I have a question. Most of the emails on this list display > text in the message body, but some have a blank body. > Instead, they have attachments which contain the message > text and the sender's PGP signature. All of Greg Lehey's > messages are like this. So what is your question? KeS (Ok, ok - GUESSING what your question is; some mailers use MIME encoding for the body of the message, as well as for any attachments. Other mailers treat any MIME-encoded data as an attachment, even if it is text. Hope this helps.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message