On 10/28/2009 2:23 PM, Jim Rosenberg wrote:
This is not really a Postfix problem, but I'm hoping Postfix may be able
to be part of the problem. The problem concerns [pardon my foul
language] Hotmail. It seems in recent weeks with the cutover of Hotmail
to Windows Live, or whatever it is, when a Hotmail user receives an
E-mail whose text is in a text/html MIME part and there *is no*
text/plain MIME part, it displays as just an empty message, with no way
to display the HTML body. Now this is purely a Hotmail problem, and I
have reason to think the missing text/plain is actually a Hotmail issue
too: my users having Hotmail recipients with the problem seem to be
*replying* to a Hotmail message.
It should be doable with perl and a screwdriver (:-)) to *supply* the
missing text/plain part on the outbound side. It would require rendering
the text/html part using lynx, packaging it up into a MIME part, and
injecting it into the message.
Does anyone know of anything off the shelf that accomplishes this?
-Thanks in advance, Jim
Fixing broken mail is a minefield and you need to carefully
consider before you step there. Don't be too surprised if
whatever tool you use ends up breaking mail (including mail
you didn't intend to alter) in new and interesting ways.
I say put on your somber face and agree that Hotmal is goofed
up, hope they fix it soon.
-- Noel Jones
