powermail-discuss Digest #2878 - Thursday, September 2, 2010
mime msg doesn't show body
by "Peter Lovell" <[email protected]>
Re: mime msg doesn't show body
by "Charles Watts-Jones" <[email protected]>
Re: mime msg doesn't show body
by "Beatrix Willius" <[email protected]>
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Subject: mime msg doesn't show body
From: "Peter Lovell" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:56 -0400
Hi all,
I'm trying to track down an issue that started recently.
A company I deal with (buy.com) sends special-offer email with their
deals of the week. Until recently, they had text part (set as my
default) and an html part that showed if I clicked the little icon at
the bottom of the mail browser ("Show HTML", "Show plain text..." etc)
But for about two weeks now nothing shows. No plain text, no html, and
no icon when that message is selected. The message shows fine in Apple's Mail.
Now just today I received one from a different company (financial
institution) with the same characteristic. Looking at the header, which
is all I can see after all, I notice that they're both from
flonetwork.com (an emailer company, acquired by Doubleclick and now part
of Google).
In the older messages that displayed OK there was this indicator for
content ...
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="Boundary_(ID_n780nyha+GKpAsj+z2dGlQ)"
The new messages have a different specification, shown in context below
with the initial part of the text
========= start snippet ============
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
------000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Buy.com Weekly Deals
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/mxir0Mgssr0RAs0Cmyx0HG
========= end snippet ============
I'm not familiar with rules for MIME but I notice that now there are two
boundary specifications and neither is in quotes. The two, put together,
are the same as the boundary (with two extra hyphens "-" before the
first and intermediate ones, and after the final one).
Does anyone have any idea what's broken here??
Thanks.....Peter
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Message-id: <[email protected]>
From: "Buy.com Deals" <[email protected]>
Reply-to: "Buy.com Deals "
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Samsung
20" LCD Monitor $103.00, Wii Fit Charging Stand w/ Battery Pack $14.99,
Motorola Bluetooth Headset $28.49, Kodak 12.3MP Camera $75.99,..
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
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Subject: Re: mime msg doesn't show body
From: "Charles Watts-Jones" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:08:39 +0200
On 2 September Peter Lovell wrote:
> I'm trying to track down an issue that started recently.
I'm afraid that I can't offer a solution. I have been having this
problem for a while now, generally the message in question does not
offer a 'View message in web browser' alternative. If I want to read
them, I'm forced to do so on line. I can confirm that the mime header
usually is like this:
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
I hope CTM is watching and can offer a solution.
-- Charles
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Subject: Re: mime msg doesn't show body
From: "Beatrix Willius" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:44:58 +0200
Hi Peter,
the boundary is encoded according to RFC2231. So far I haven't seen this for
boundaries. Most likely, Powermail doesn't support 2231 in boundaries. And I
will check this for my own application.
Am 02.09.2010 um 14:00 schrieb Peter Lovell:
>
> ========= start snippet ============
> MIME-version: 1.0
> Content-type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary*0=----000000000000000000000000000000000000;
> boundary*1=000000000000000000000000000
>
> ------000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Buy.com Weekly Deals
> http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/mxir0Mgssr0RAs0Cmyx0HG
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards
Trixi Willius
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