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Date:      Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:45:49 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird messages
Message-ID:  <3E85B19D.9060201@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030329064308.534322A8BB@canning.wemm.org>
References:  <20030329064308.534322A8BB@canning.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
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> It looks like the mime support in mailman is just too smart for its own
> good..  majordomo just blindly appended the trailer, but mailman is doing
> it by adding a new mime section.   Eww.  Its perfectly valid mime, but
> obviously the nesting is making things interesting to some mailers.

The general problem of appending stuff-- mailing list info, annoying 
legal disclaimers :-), etc-- to email, and having the result be even 
approximately correct when viewed by the wide variety of mail user 
agents, is a lot harder than it may appear.  MIME-aware MUA's that 
mishandle multipart content-types cause most of the difficulty.

Also, MailMan needs to be able to send to list members who prefer either 
plain text or MIME formatted...

-- 
-Chuck



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