On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:37:18 -0500, Joel C. Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:
>Another one of those message formats that appears to Thunderbird as >"garbage". I can read it fine on the ibm-main online archive, where is >shows Ituriel's readable message followed by the ibm-main trailer lines, >but it must be arriving in a format that ibm-main doesn't fully >understand, as its re-broadcast seems to have Ituriel's message encoded >as base64, followed by the ibm-main trailer lines, also encoded as a >separate base64 block but with no message heading structure appropriate >to the sending of two base64 blocks. I gather some Email clients may >tolerate this, but Thunderbird does not and just displays the base64 >encoded data. > >I think we've been down this path before. The original message format >must be partly responsible, but this also looks like a bug in the >ibm-main list server logic: it should never think it reasonable to >append its trailer in a way that sends out two base64 blocks back-to >back, rather than, say, trying to merge the the data into a single >base64 block, or resend the whole thing un-decoded with 8-bit MIME Email >conventions. In my experience, Joel, it's often a question of -your- (that is, each recipient's) personal settings at the list server. If you query your settings, look at the header options you have. If you have anything other than FULLHDR you may find some messages that don't have enough header info to allow your client (Thunderbird) to process the message properly. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
