Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound]
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:04:42
Message-Id: 20110330160243.34dca8f8@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: text, mime, and mail2news [was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound] by "Elaine C. Sharpe"
1 On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:42:45 -0400, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
2
3 > In linux.gentoo.user, it is written:
4 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
5 > >
6 > > --Boundary_(ID_jiktZdPjr0/tEFWOw/bFvg)
7 > > Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
8 > > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
9 > > Content-disposition: inline
10 > >
11 > > ----- Original Message -----From=3A Mark Knecht=A0Date=3A
12 > > Wednesday=2C M= arch 30=2C 2011 9=3A52 amSubject=3A Re=3A
13 > > =5Bgentoo-user=5D Re=3A ALSA=A0=
14
15 > Here's a good example of the mess I was describing earlier. Doesn't
16 > appear to be using kmail thouogh.
17
18 The mailer is irrelevant, this is a perfectly acceptable quoted-printable
19 message that reads fine when sent from the list. It's clearly the
20 mail2news gateway that is screwing things up by ignoring the MIME
21 information in the mail and treating the whole thing as plain text.
22
23
24 --
25 Neil Bothwick
26
27 Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take
28 the time to take the dirt out of them?

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