Odd mailing-list setting

Moritz Heiber moe at lunar-linux.org
Tue Sep 30 11:08:15 CEST 2003


On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:00:01 +0100
John Pettigrew <john at pettigrew.org.uk> wrote:

> In a previous message, Chuck Mead <csm at lunar-linux.org> wrote:
> 
> > John Pettigrew wrote: 
> > > This mailing list appears to change the Content-Type headers of
> > > emails.
> > 
> > Are you sending html based email? The list changes it to text.
> 
> Nope, it's a plain text email with a GPG signature attachment. My MUA
> correctly types this as multipart/signed, but the list munges this to
> multipart/mixed for some strange reason!
> 
> I could understand if the list simply stripped all attachments (slight
> overkill but reasonable) but changing the Content-Type without
> changing the actual content will almost always break things.

I'm sorry but my "MUA" displays your message as 'Multipart/signed'.

Bye,

Moritz



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