Stonewall Ballard wrote: > >On Mar 5, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> I think what's going on here is the original message is >> multipart/alternative with both a text/plain part and a text/html >> part. If more than one sub-part remains in a multipart/alternative >> part after filtering, Mailman selects the first remaining alternative >> which would be the text/plain part in this case. > >This was a problem with my users until I discovered that Outlook seems >to send the text part first, but other mail clients sent the html part >first, so html was getting through only for people who didn't use >Outlook.
This would appear to be a violation of RFC 2046 section 5.1.4 which says in part "... the alternatives appear in an order of increasing faithfulness to the original content." >But I don't see the point of removing all but one alternative part. Why >does Mailman do that? To reduce the size of the outgoing message. This can be a significant reduction. Also, to support the idea that posts received from mailing lists should be intelligible to the maximum number of recipients, some of whom may by choice or necessity not use MIME aware MUAs. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
