7 Jan
2002
7 Jan
'02
8:05 a.m.
Richard Erlacher said:
I got a message this time. Apparently your mailer
doesn't do what you think
it does.
Actually, it does. I've looked at my mail spool after e-mailing myself. The
real problem is that outlook is brain-dead... The message is sent as
mulipart/MIME, with the first part being the text of the message and the other
part being the signature. Clearly outlook doesn't understand how to process
MIME the right way; it should recognize that part 1 is plain text and display
it, and that part 2 is something it doesn't know about. I've talked to others
(not on this list) about it, and the only mailers that seem to have this
problem are 1) outlook, and 2) some e-mail appliances. I stand by outlook
being brain-dead in dealing with this, but I'm dropping sending the signature
to the list for the time being since it's causing problems, and it's not so
important to me if my list traffic is signed... anything I send in private
mail will continue to include it, though, so be aware in case I ever send you
anything off-list ;-)
If you figure omitting your message is not a problem, then why post it?
I don't know what your mailer's documents tell you it does, but I've seen
this before, and it doesn't just put the signature in the attachment, but,
rather, puts the entire message in it, so one gets an empty message with a
pair of attachments, one of which is the message as a .txt file and the
other of which is a .dat file, albeit not what Windows, if that matters,
expects to find in a .dat file, which is a music file of some sort, since it
brings up the media player to process it.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Wright" <dtwright(a)uiuc.edu>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Language and English
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
-] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
jeez! ok, if it's causing such problems,
i'll tell my mailer to stop
attaching my signature if i'm sending from this mailbox... hope that
helps...
>
> Richard Erlacher said:
> > Yup! Here's another one ... a blank message with an attachment.
> >
> > Of course I won't open it ...
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Wright" <dtwright(a)uiuc.edu>
> > To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: Language and English
> >
> >
> - Dan Wright
> (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
> (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
>
> -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [-
> ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
> For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
>
>