From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:28:25 -0400
On Friday 14 April 2006 21:57, Ken Irving wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:11:20PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:33:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> > > Huh, look at that. It doesn't show up in any of the attachments
>> > > either. Just not there. Good eye Gene.
>> >
>> > It's there.
>>
>> This is not the first time I've seen an argument about whether a
>> specific message had the unsubscribe tag-line appended to it.
>> There would seem to be confused mail clients out there that cut off
>> the signature if there is also a PGP key. Does anyone know which
>> ones?
>
>IMHO the confused clients must be the ones showing the tag-line. ;-)
>
>I think the pgp thing is a red (pink?) herring; the effect is actually
> due to MIME encoding, which pgp messages use, as do other messages.
I think you are correct. The answer I haven't looked up yet, is what is
an email agent supposed to do with 2 or 3 extra text lines that are
below the end marker of the mimetype? IMO it should fall back to plain
text mode and display it, but what does the actual rfc say about such a
situation?
And, how much screwing around would it be to make the listserver actualy
wrap it with the proper mimetype declaration?
Test question for the mutt users here. Is there a way to turn off mutts
automatic sig trimming (anything below the "-- ") thats preventing
those users from seeing it in a message I originate since with that
exception, I'm sending plain text.
> Looking at my debian list mail, most multipart messages are pgp,
> others are html, and a few have just plain text sections. The
> unsubscribe tag-line does not show in my mutt MUA in any of these.
> If I add another mime boundary before the debian tag-line, then it
> does show up (er, except for the html ones for some reason...).
>
>I've looked a bit at the SmartList source, but haven't found where/how
>this is configured; adding the tag-line, that is. Per another
> ressponse in this thread, if the tagline were to be identified
> properly as another multipart section it would probably appear in
> compliant MUAs.
>
>Hard to say if this would really help for the OP, of course,
> especially as there are plenty of non-MIME messages that should show
> the information.
>
>--
>Ken Irving
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