Re: [Nolug] Re: NOLUG mailing list bug

Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Why would the e-mail be base 64 encoded to beginwith?

Petri

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