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] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
