[pmmail-list] HTML version

[Brian Morrison]

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On Sun, 26 May 2002 10:37:57 +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:

>>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.

If it is text/plain PMMail doesn't render 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.

And how is it supposed to know what to do? It isn't PMMail that's
broken in this case.....

>What we need is a setting in preferences on what to do with mail of "unknown mime type".

Indeed, but there you are, we may get one if we're lucky in the Windows
version, OS/2 is anyone's guess. I run a filter that looks for
content-type: */html in the body and rejects the mail if there is one.
This is not in PMMail however, I do that in my MTA so that mail of that
type is bounced with a message to the effect that I don't accept any
html mail.



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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.org.uk

 "Almost noon, and she had yet to go the launderette in Concreton to 
 thaw out chickens in the spin-drier..."

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