This is FYI here. Sam has answered one question that has been nagging
me for quite some time - why do I get cat /dev/random type characters
at the end of my list mail?

Binand

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From: Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [courier-users] Re: email footers
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:28:24 -0500
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Randy Robb writes:

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>Hi all - My management wants a footer at the bottom of every outgoing 
>email from within our company. Can anyone tell me how I would go about 
>doing this? Thanks. 

The best way to do this is to implement it in your mail client.  This cannot 
be done by the server for a number of reasons, having to do with all the 
different possible mail encodings and formats.  It's not as simple as just 
slapping a few lines of text at the end of the message.  If the message 
contains attachments the extra stuff will simply be junk after the trailing 
MIME separator, which all mail clients will ignore completely.  Even 
messages without attachments will have to deal with issues concerning MIME 
encoding, and character sets.

Occasionally you'll see a message on this list with the standard sourceforge 
disclaimer replaced by binary shit.  That's because the original message 
that came out of the sender's mail client was base64-encoded, receiving 
clients will decode the originally-encoded content, and the cleartext 
sourceforge disclaimer will be "decoded" alongside with it; naturally 
decoding into random crap.

Now, ask your boss what he thinks of having his outgoing mail look like 
that.

Footers belong in the mail client.




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