Well that crossed the Atlantic twice in less than a second, at least... Jostein
Den 24. februar 2016 22.28.28 CET, skrev "Jostein Øksne" <[email protected]>: >ÆØÅ, æøå. >Best, >Josrein > >Den 24. februar 2016 21.46.55 CET, skrev Igor PDML-StR ><[email protected]>: >> >>I've experienced this problem last week (and I've seen it 1-2 times >>before): >>certain messages would not get posted to the list no matter what, >while >> >>other messages go through without any problem. >>It is similar to what a few others have experienced, including Nicole. >> >>The root of the problem is the symbols that can sneak in ... >> Essentially, if there is any non-ASCII symbol (more exactly, 8-bit >>symbol, the e-mail program may (or in some cases should?) send the >>message >>differently, even though it is a text-only message. The program would >>use >>so-called "MIME" format, where the message would appear as a >>"multi-part". >>And that is most likely treated by Doug's server software (mailman) as >>a >>message with an attachment. So, the message is not passed through. >> >>[Geek_Language On] >>When that happen, the headers of the message would have lines as these > >>three: >> >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >>BOUNDARY="518673661-1546572836-1455812812=:60197" >> .... >> >>And then the body of the message would be starting with: >> >>--518673661-1546572836-1455812812=:60197 >>Content-Type: text/plain; FORMAT=flowed; CHARSET=UTF-8 >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT >> >>And even though here, it is "Content-Type: text/plain", the line >>"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" in the headers. >> >> >>For comparison, when this doesn't happen, the header lines look like >>this: >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: text/plain; FORMAT=flowed; CHARSET=US-ASCII >> >>[Geek Language Off (mostly)] >> >>What can cause this? That can happen if you are copying some text from >>the >>website that contains either some non-English symbols, or some >>Microsoftified symbols (e.g. "..." replaced with a single symbol). >> >>That's why I asked Nicole about the mail program that she used. >>Godfrey's response is consistent with that Apple Mail might be doing >>the >>same. >> >>Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> Same as I use, Nicole. Be sure to set Mail to default to plain text >>> only. I find that occasionally it switches to rich text on replies, >>so I >>> always check the mode before sending. >> >>So, I hope this information would be helpful. >>If you have problems responding to or sending a particular message, >>check >>if all symbols are just plain ASCII symbols (as in 7-bit English >>letters). >> >> >>Igor >> >>PS. In my case, the program is alpine. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
