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Re: OT: No unsubscribe signature?



On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:33:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 01:25 +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:18:16AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:14:33AM -0400, Josh Metzler wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >>> without the usual signature describing how 
> > > >>> to unsubscribe from debian-devel.  Was this the case for everyone, or is 
> > > >>> there something between the debian servers and my mail client that 
> > > >>> occasionally (but very rarely) strips signatures?
> > > 
> > > > I see it at the end of your email:
> > > 
> > > > The way it was explained to me on the Evolution ML is that the
> > > > "disappearing unsub message" only happens only happens to emails
> > > > that have attachments.  For example, digital signatures.  The
> > > > ML manager blindly tacks the unsub text to the end of the email,
> > > > and the MUA doesn't "see" it, because it only knows to process 
> > > > the attachments (text/plain & application/pgp-signature being 99.99%
> > > > of the attachments to emails on this list).
> > > 
> > > > View the raw source of such a "disappearing unsub message" email,
> > > > and you will see that the text is there.
> > > 
> > > Nope.
> > > 
> > 
> > It doesn't include it in some cases where it knows it won't show.
> 
> I wonder what it's rule set is.
> 

:0 fbw
* ! ^Content-Transfer-Encoding:.*base64
* ! ^Content-Transfer-Encoding:.*quoted-printable
| cat - footer.txt


realistically, we should be checking if it's a multipart message and
adding a block if this is the case.

Pasc

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Pascal Hakim                                          0403 411 672
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