Fred wrote:
>Sent it twice; it never showed up. Anyone have any idea why? Is there
>a size limitation, and if so, what is it?
And Ashara responded:
>Have you upgraded to 6.0? If so.... many of us who have upgraded have not
>been able to get mail through.
'Tis unfortunately true. AOL 6.0 has been written without the ability to
send out plain text mail. The Smoe servers are set to reject all formatted
mail. Smoe and AOL are both working on a fix (see the message from Smoe
below) but until one of them arrives at one, AOL 6.0 users are out of luck.
My sincere apologies - hopefully this situation will be resolved soon.
Les
Smoe's message:
>it seems that the latest version of aol (6.0) does not currently have a
>setting to allow their users to send plan-text mail. as a result, you will
>probably see an increase in bounced messages since
>smoe's majordomo is configured to bounce all html-formatted mail for all
>lists.
>
>aol says they are developing a
>fix for this but they haven't finished it yet and don't know when they will
>have it available.
>
>incidentially, [we at smoe] decided that we're going to install demime on
>smoe. demime will strip non-text mime attachments out of all list-bound
>mail which will, hopefully, solve this problem for us. as you can imagine,
>it's a lot easier to beat this on our end since there are too many mailers
>to keep track of anymore.
