[Mailman-Users] Message digest/archive oddity ...

[Jason LaMar]

Sorry about that. Let's try this again.

A list subscriber submitted an HTML e-mail message from Outlook with a Word
attachment. It came across as a multi-part MIME, with these content type
headers (in this order):

------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C5A33B.DBC4C170
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170"

------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170
Content-Type: text/plain;
    charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170
Content-Type: text/html;
    charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C5A33B.DBC4C170
Content-Type: application/msword;
    name="advice to faculty.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
    filename="advice to faculty.doc"

The body text of the message was under both the text/plain (unformatted) and
text/html (formatted) areas, and the message and attachment both rendered
fine for non-digest recipients.

Yet in both the digest and the archives, this message was simply listed as:

Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part
--------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: advice to faculty.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 29696 bytes
Desc: not available


What happened? Why did the body of the message disappear? And how do I
prevent this from happening again?

Jason

_________________________

Jason LaMar
Interim Director of Information Services
Libraries and Information Services
Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015
Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/