Con Wieland wrote:
>I am having trouble understanding what is going on with the
>attachments and archives. I have a message being sent to the list
>that appears to be text with a pdf attachment. With Mac mail I
>receive it as expected showing both the text and the attachment. When
>I go to the archives though I get the message text plus
>
>-------------- next part --------------
>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/
>20080415/846539df/attachment-0002.html
>-------------- next part --------------
>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
>Name: jeffrey_vallance.pdf
>Type: application/pdf
>Size: 161144 bytes
>Desc: not available
>Url : http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/
>20080415/846539df/attachment-0001.pdf
>-------------- next part --------------
>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/
>20080415/846539df/attachment-0003.html
So, it looks like the message structure is something like
multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
text/plain (the plain text you see in the archive)
text/html (the html version which is
attachment-0002.html in the archive)
application/pdf (the pdf attachment which is
attachment-0001.pdf in the archive)
text/html (appears to be a (empty) footer added
probably by the sender's MUA. This
is attachment-0003.html in the archive)
>My questions are, why am I getting the html attachments?
Because the sender's MUA is sending them and your content filtering is
either not on or is not removing HTML and not collapsing alternatives.
>and why
>are they jibberish?
They are not gibberish. They are HTML shown to you as raw rather than
rendered HTML.
The attachment-0002.html appears to be an announcement for "Beyond
Field: A Guide Through Practice and Discipline" which is what I assume
the original plain text is too. If you visit that link
(<http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/20080415/846539df/attachment-0002.html>,
and copy the text and paste it into a file named xxx.html and open
that file in a web browser, you'll see a rendered version which is
probably what you saw in your mail client rather than the plain text.
--
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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