Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
On 8/7/07, Martin Sebor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
We've had a number of complaints about ezmlm stripping plain text
attachments to posts such as patches sent by Microsoft Outlook.
Other mailers (e.g., Mozilla) don't have this problem.
IIRC this was a measure put in place by infrastructure after numerous
complaints about viruses being mailed to lists by outlook. ask on
infrastructure for a definitive answer.
Will do.
FWIW, after some experimenting we've figured out that Outlook
sends text attachments with extensions other than .txt with
MIME type of application/octet-stream, and encodes those with
the .txt extension in base64. So far no one on stdcxx-dev has
been able to figure out how to make it send them as plain/text.
People have been using other mailers to send to the list. Is
Outlook really this bad or are we overlooking something? Are
there any Outlook users here who have a better experience?
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with it other
that to switch to a different mailer?
inline short text after the email body eg.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/james-server-dev/200708.mbox/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
longer text is better in JIRA
Right. That's been our approach.
More generally, is there
a document that describes the do's and don'ts of posting to
Apache lists?
some but they could do with some more work :-/
eg http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html
Thanks! These are useful guidelines on the mailing list etiquette.
anyone interested in pulling together some better documentation?
I'd be happy to help by sharing/documenting our experiences but
before I try to impart our wisdom on the masses I'd like to hear
how others have dealt with the problem.
Martin
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