Truncated digest with MIME
I have a problem. We have, I think, a problem.
Message is sent with a line exactly 76 characters long, ending with ".". User (a computerphobe) still has pretty email turned on, so something en route wraps the line at column 75, leaving a "." by itself on the next line.
For another digest user - who is reading email as plain text that means "here endeth the message". Rest of digest not visible. Potential for fouling up their email client when they reindex.
I've asked all members of the list to switch to plain text emails. But it ain't gonna happen :(
Can something be done to make mailman transparent to this?
I can find one message about this in the archive, but no response:
# From: Michael Schwendt # Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman transparency # Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 06:24:03 -0700
- Occasionally, a subscriber finds that a posted message has made it to the mailing-list only truncated. It turns out that the message contained a line with only a single dot by itself. Mailman cuts off the message body at that line before distributing the truncated message to all subscribers. It looks much like the dot is treated as SMTP message body delimiter but in a non-transparent way. The users should be protected from something like that.
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mch@cix.compulink.co.uk