From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 18 4: 5:34 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 EBF0737B404 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanmail4.cableone.net (scanmail4.cableone.net [24.116.0.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD83843F93 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:05:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stargate@cableone.net) Received: from scanmail4.cableone.net ([10.116.0.124]) by scanmail4.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:04:32 -0700 Received: from scanmail4.cableone.net [24.116.0.124] by scanmail4.cableone.net (SMTPD32-7.04) id AB4FB160100; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:04:31 -0700 Received: from Tower (24-117-48-125.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.48.125]) by mail.cableone.net with SMTP (MailShield v2.04 - WIN32 Jul 17 2001 17:12:42); Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:04:31 -0700 Message-ID: <000e01c2ed46$ab8551d0$0200a8c0@Tower> From: "Brian Davis" To: Subject: Re: Email attachments Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:05:29 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SMTP-HELO: Tower X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: stargate@cableone.net X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: 24-117-48-125.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.48.125] 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 > > 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.) > When you shoot a MIME, do you use a silencer? Sorry. My question is, why would anyone intentionally send a message that requires others to open it with a text editor, especially since the message is in plain text anyway. As I mentioned in my original post, I use Outlook Express as my email client. Are there other MUAs that do a better job of displaying MIME-emcoded messages? Brian Davis > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message