On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 7:38 AM Anderson, Charles R <c...@wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 07:23:28AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:07 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < > > domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > > > I tried the mailing list mode to have it send me e-mail messages, > > > but the messages are multipart/alternative (html+text) with the > > > text part mangled and containing pieces of HTML code. Failure here > > > as well. > > > > Could this be because of the particular email client you're using? I use > > gmail and they look fine. Probably not fair to judge the system on the > > capabilities > > of your email client. Wouldn't the same thing happen if people sent you > > email from > > gmail, etc. with embedded html? What the mailing list mode does do is > to > > allow you to > > read and respond without a browser. > > No, if an email sender (Discourse) uses multipart/alternative with two > attachments, text/plain and text/html, then it is required that the > sender format the text/plain part as text with no HTML in it. Where is that defined? Probably would be a good idea to open a bug with them if they are violating some official standard. > It is > also required to send semantically similar contents in both the > text/plain and text/html parts, so that the text/plain part can act as > a real human-readable alternative in the multipart/alternative message > (i.e. it shouldn't set the text/plain part to be something like "Your > email client doesn't support HTML. Please open this message in an > HTML-capable client.") > > In my experience so far with the 3 messages I've received from > Discourse in mailing-list mode, it doesn't send raw HTML in the > text/plain attachment. It sends something that looks like BBcode: > Well, which is it? Rathann says html, you say bbcode? Regardless, as I mentioned above, if they have a bug, then it should be reported for them to address. Mailing list mode has been out for several years now - seems to me if this were a pervasive issue with a published standardize solution, they should take care of it. Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me.
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