Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> Mark Allums wrote:
> > Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> >
> > > [...] could
> > > > be said for your HTML-spewing MUA.
> > >
> > > What that heck are you talking about? My message was sent in plain
> > > text, not
> > > HTML.
> >
> > It's a dual-format message encoded in MIME base64 format.
>
> Where the heck are you seeing base64 encoding?
Do "View message Source" or similar option with your MUA/client. Read
the headers.
In both the copy of my message written directly to my Sent folder and
> the copy
> I got back from my mail server (because of my BCC header addressing
myself),
> there was _no_ base64 encoding of anything. (That's from viewing the
> raw message
> using SeaMonkey's View Source command AND from double-checking with
emacs.)
>
> Are you ascribing to my MUA (and my configuration and use of it) some
> transformation that something else is performing?
No. At least, I don't think so.
>
> (The only type of copy I can't find is a copy echoed back from the
> mailing list
> (to see what arrived at the other end). Do Debian lists not send copies
> back to
> the original sender?)
>
>
> > So, two
> > things are wrong with the format of your message. One, it's both
plain
> > text and HTML,
>
> Similarly: Where are you seeing HTML? There is _no_ HTML in what my
> MUA sent
> out.
It's there. Again, with view source, it's quite plain.
>
>
> > ... and two, it's MIME encoded.
>
> What do you mean by "MIME encoded"? That's ambiguous. MIME involves a
> lot of
> things. My message has no transfer encoding other than a straight
> one-byte-per-character encoding (and in fact it's the simplest, plainest
> ASCII-based encoding: "7-bit"). My message doesn't have multiple
parts, so
> there's no encoding of multiple parts.
I beg to differ. Or rather, Mozilla Thunderbird begs to differ.
> > The latter is not necessarily a deal-breaker, if everyone has a modern
> > mail-reading client, ...
>
> Surely you're not saying that people object to the MIME-Version
header field
> (ignorable by MUAs that don't understand it), right?
No, "not a deal-breaker" means MIME is okay. (Except for ancient
software, which may show someone the headers and extraneous info., then
force them to view a couple of blocks of seemingly random text, which
are the actual message text in base64 encoding.)
Mark Allums
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