On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 15:31 Anderson, Charles R <c...@wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:02:58AM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:55 AM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > > > > On 10/17/18 8:52 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > > > Again, I use gmail and things look perfectly fine for me. > > > > > > That's because gmail only shows the HTML part. > > > > > > > Ah... so it's a client issue. Good to know. > > No. You are either completely misunderstanding the issue, or are > arrogantly choosing to ignore it. Your tone comes across as the > latter, but I apologize if I misconstrue your intent. > > Let me try to explain again. Different people prefer different > clients. Some people prefer text-only clients that have no capability > to render HTML. That's okay--MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail > Extenstions RFC 2045 and RFC 2046) provide a way to support both > text-only and HTML clients, called multipart/alternative in MIME. It > is up to the sender of the email to support MIME multipart/alternative > correctly by supplying meaningful content in two separate mail > attachments--text/plain for text-only clients, and text/html for Gmail > and other HTML-capable clients. If you are using Gmail you will only > see the HTML part. You need to see the text/plain part to see what > issues it has. > > To claim that your preference of email client, Gmail, "looks fine" and > then dismissing anyone else's issues as "a client issue" implies that > you don't care about people who use different clients. That is not a > way to garner support and reaching consensus for changing how the > Fedora Project communicates with its members. > I'm not an email expert by any means. What I said was that it works perfectly fine for me. If people have an issue with it they should file a bug or enhancement request with the discourse project. That way the issue could be addressed and everyone could benefit. >
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