On Wed, 9 May 2012 13:12:52 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
>On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:37:18 -0500, Joel C. Ewing 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.
>>
With Firefox 12.0 I see it garbled on the LISTSERV at:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1205&L=ibm-main&P=320205
>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.
-- gil
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
