Alarming Pine/remote netscape problem
(Perhaps I shouldn't post this to -devel, but I find this problem quite
alarming and thought others should be aware of it)
I have recently discovered that if I send mail from my work computer
(SunStation) using Netscape 4.05 to my home computer (Debian slink) that
if I reply to the message, the original message is sent back _instead_ of
my reply. This _only_ happens if "Send HTML as default" is turned on in
Netscape and I select "Send both Plain Text and HTML" when prompted
sending the original note in Netscape. If I just send a plain text note,
this doesn't happen. I always send plain text, but I have received and
replied to notes from others that don't and now suddenly am quite
concerned if the original sender received my reply. Anyway, it seems that
somehow either pine and/or smail sees the html as an attachment and then
sends that back instead. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there
anything I can do about it? One more thing: the only difference I can see
in the headers of each note is the "Content-type" (below). From the first
note, all I received back at work is the original note. Alternatively,
perhaps some mime program I have installed is causing this - any ideas?
Any help is very much appreciated. Cheers, Colin.
------------ header from message with both text and html
>From CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca Tue Oct 13 16:03:43 1998
Return-Path: <CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Received: from bank-banque-canada.ca (really [140.80.199.51]) by telmer.com
via in.smtpd with esmtp
id <m0zTAZ0-00014sC@telmer.com> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for <telmerco@telmer.com>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
Received: by mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca id <13448>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:07:54 -0400
Sender: CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca
Message-Id: <98Oct13.160754edt.13448@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:25 -0400
From: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Colin Telmer <telmerco@telmer.com>
Subject: [Fwd: test with html]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------221473FEDC0D4053D64BE2DD"
--
Colin Telmer
Debt Management Section, Department of Finance
Phone: (613)992-9107
Visiting at the Risk Management Unit,
Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada
Phone: (613)782-8662
[Part 1.2, Text/HTML 10 lines]
[Unable to print this part]
[ Part 2: "Included Message" ]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:54:03 -0400
From: Colin Telmer <telmerco@telmer.com>
To: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <CTelmer@mailhost.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Subject: Re: test with html
reply to test
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Colin Telmer (DoF) wrote:
> test with html
>
> --
> Colin Telmer
> Debt Management Section, Department of Finance
> Phone: (613)992-9107
> Visiting at the Risk Management Unit,
> Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada
> Phone: (613)782-8662
>
>
>
--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
<mailto:telmerco@telmer.com>
<http://www.telmer.com>
[Part 2.2, "" Text/HTML 10 lines]
[Unable to print this part]
---------------------------------------
-------------------- Header with just plain text
>From CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca Tue Oct 13 16:03:17 1998
Return-Path: <CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Received: from bank-banque-canada.ca (really [140.80.199.51]) by telmer.com
via in.smtpd with esmtp
id <m0zTAZK-00015uC@telmer.com> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for <telmerco@telmer.com>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
Received: by mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca id <13451>; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:08:11 -0400
Sender: CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca
Message-Id: <98Oct13.160811edt.13451@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:56:48 -0400
From: "Colin Telmer (DoF)" <CTelmer@bank-banque-canada.ca>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Colin Telmer <telmerco@telmer.com>
Subject: second test
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
second test
--
Colin Telmer
Debt Management Section, Department of Finance
Phone: (613)992-9107
Visiting at the Risk Management Unit,
Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada
Phone: (613)782-8662
--
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
<mailto:telmerco@telmer.com>
<http://www.telmer.com>
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