RE: Footer isn't At the Bottom of the E-mail; It's an Attachment
I know this is a dumb question, but I cant find an answer anywhere. Can you please help?
Ive setup several Mailman lists prefer there to be an informative footer at the bottom of each e-mail. Ive been successful doing that with some lists but on others it shows up as an attachment (and nothing except the message is in the e-mail). As far as I can tell there is no difference between the lists. Ive looked at every setting I can find.
Can anyone tell me where the setting is for the text footer so that it DOESNT show up as an attachment?
Doug Piper
Quoting doug@hyperpiper.com (doug@hyperpiper.com):
I know this is a dumb question, but I cant find an answer anywhere. Can you please help?
Ive setup several Mailman lists prefer there to be an informative footer at the bottom of each e-mail. Ive been successful doing that with some lists but on others it shows up as an attachment (and nothing except the message is in the e-mail). As far as I can tell there is no difference between the lists. Ive looked at every setting I can find.
Can anyone tell me where the setting is for the text footer so that it DOESNT show up as an attachment?
As far as I know, it has nothing to do with the list. If people send email that's dual html and plain text, or otherwise mime multipart, then the bit mailman attaches will be another attachment. If they send plain text only, then it will be appended to the text.
BTW: Are you using some weird text encoding? All your apostrophes end up like control characters to me.
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On Monday 26 April 2004 10:22 am, Paul Tomblin wrote:
BTW: Are you using some weird text encoding? All your apostrophes end up like control characters to me.
According to his headers, he's using:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Using KMail as my MUA, the source show's a little empty checkbox, which means it's a control code, but the actual message display successfully converts it into an apostrophe.
Jeff
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Quoting Jeff Lasman (blists@nobaloney.net):
On Monday 26 April 2004 10:22 am, Paul Tomblin wrote:
BTW: Are you using some weird text encoding? All your apostrophes end up like control characters to me.
According to his headers, he's using:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Using KMail as my MUA, the source show's a little empty checkbox, which means it's a control code, but the actual message display successfully converts it into an apostrophe.
I think he's using those damn "Microsoft Smart Quotes". I guess KMail is translating them, because they're octal 222 which is NOT an apostrophe in iso-8859-1.
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Paul Tomblin wrote on Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:22:59 -0400:
BTW: Are you using some weird text encoding? All your apostrophes end up like control characters to me.
He uses Outlook/Word and this apostrophe "Ž" instead of "'", or maybe it's Outlook/Word converting it for him, a Microsoft specialty :-(
Kai
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On 04/26/04 19:22 Paul Tomblin wrote:
Quoting doug@hyperpiper.com (doug@hyperpiper.com):
Can anyone tell me where the setting is for the text “footer” so that it DOESN’T show up as an attachment?
As far as I know, it has nothing to do with the list. If people send email that's dual html and plain text, or otherwise mime multipart, then the bit mailman attaches will be another attachment. If they send plain text only, then it will be appended to the text.
Hi.
I'm running into same troubles. Every mail from my lists comes along with footer attachment instead of appended plaintext. I tried to send mails with my mozilla thunderbird, which uses plaintext: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To be sure, I did a simple telnet session on my mailserver on port 25 and sent a testmail to a list running on that server - without mime/multipart of course.
Both mails come back from the list with the footer as attachment. and that's not what I expect...
Thanks in advance you your suggestions.
I'm riding Mailman 2.1.4 on Debian Woody (2.1.4-1.backports.org.1), Exim 3.35
-- cheers, Steffen
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