[Nolug] Re: NOLUG mailing list bug

Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> writes:

>> GMail, however, sees the encoded and unencoded sections and says "I
>> guess the header was lying and this is all plain text". So it shows the
>> base64 encoded body.
>
> As I understand it (correct me otherwise), when Curtis sends to the list on
> his crackberry, and someone on gmail replies, Curtis' post gets garbled. Nice
> corner case.

It is otherwise. He sends an email to the list. The list adds a
plain-text signature, and the resulting email is not displayed on
Gmail because the email header says it is base64 encoded but there is
non-base64-encoded content.

> Does everything he sends look garbled in gmail?

Everything that goes through the list will. I'm sure he could send
email directly to a gmail account without a problem. He would have to
confirm that.

> Another workaround (not the best suggestion, surely) would be to copy
> the text you wanted to reply to, hit reply in gmail,

This workaround won't work. The problem is: gmail users see his emails
as garbled text because your mailing list software is adding an
un-encoded, plain-text signature to an email that is base64 encoded.

Mark.

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