On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:08:20 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht
([email protected]) wrote about "Re: Curse you, L-Soft!"
(in <6156763411207138.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu>):

> Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> 
>> I can neither submit an SR to L-Soft nor rant on the L-Soft mailing list 
>> because I'm not a registered L-Soft customer.
> 
> I feel your pain. I also wanted to moan and b*tch about base 64 encoding 
> amongst other things, but ...

Sometimes Base64 or other binary-safe encoding is required by RFC.

>> o When I attempt to reply to a submitter rather than to the  list, my 
>> message is usually bounced by Rules at the recipients MTA.  It might help 
>> greatly if LISTSERV added  a proper "Sender:" header.
> 
> Uh, I'm not understanding you? What is MTA? I only respond via web-page, not 
> via my own e-mail client software like Outlook. Else, I just copy and paste 
> the sender's address manually, a real PITA, but there is not really an 
> alternative AFAIK.

MTA = Mail Transfer Agent

This is/are the SMTP server(s) used to move email around.

[snip]
> But I have a gut feeling it is about the poster own e-mail attributes to 
> L-Soft which causes much grief to you and perhaps others too.
> 
> I don't blame them too. Perhaps my OWN (and yours too) posting is causing 
> trouble to them too...

Using a fully RFC-compliant MUA can cause many problems for those who
use "cowboy coded" MUAs.

And to complete the email glossary:

MUA = Mail User Agent (your mail reader)

MDA = Mail Delivery Agent (the server from which your MUA downloads mail)
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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