[pmmail-list] HTML version

[Richard Grevers]

On Sun, 26 May 2002 10:16:08 +0100 (BST), Brian Morrison wrote:

>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.....

I realise that, but most other mail clients seem to deal with it okay, either by
recognizing that the header block hasn't finished and reading the content-type header.
(A "microsoftian" solution: pretending illegal stuff is legit) or by only presenting
such mail as text (a safe and sensible solution). Pegasus does the latter.
>
>>What we need is a setting in preferences on what to do with mail of "unknown mime type".
Plus of course an option for preferred rendering of multipart/alternative
>


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