From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:02:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110330160243.34dca8f8@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110330144245.GA19119@gaurahari>
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:42:45 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, it is written:
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> >
> > --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg)
> > Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
> > Content-disposition: inline
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----From=3A Mark Knecht=A0Date=3A
> > Wednesday=2C M= arch 30=2C 2011 9=3A52 amSubject=3A Re=3A
> > =5Bgentoo-user=5D Re=3A ALSA=A0=
> Here's a good example of the mess I was describing earlier. Doesn't
> appear to be using kmail thouogh.
The mailer is irrelevant, this is a perfectly acceptable quoted-printable
message that reads fine when sent from the list. It's clearly the
mail2news gateway that is screwing things up by ignoring the MIME
information in the mail and treating the whole thing as plain text.
--
Neil Bothwick
Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take
the time to take the dirt out of them?
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2011-03-30 14:42 ` text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound] Elaine C. Sharpe
2011-03-30 15:02 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
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2011-03-30 17:31 ` Elaine C. Sharpe
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