[pmmail-list] HTML version

[Richard Grevers]

On Sat, 25 May 2002 18:00:52 +0100 (BST), Brian Morrison wrote:

>On Sat, 25 May 2002 19:45:45 +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:
>
>>However, tag stripping is not much help when the mail in question is from 
>>a web designers' mailing list and you actually want to view the code which 
>>is being posted as code.
>
>Fair enough, but they could put the code as an attachment or even put
>it on a web page with a link to it...
>
>
But this shouldn't be necessary (nor is it practical when the list is high-traffic)
 If an email is sent as text/plain, the client should never attempt to render any
HTML tags in it.
Actually the problem seems to arise with mail sent from some email clients which
put an illegal blank line in the headers. (a blank line signals the termination of the
header block). If this preceeds the content-type header (which is usually one of the last
headers) PMMail uses content-sniffing to figure how to display the mail, often with 
disastrous results.
What we need is a setting in preferences on what to do with mail of "unknown mime type".

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