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From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
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 17:33:13
Message-Id: 20110330173130.GA25013@gaurahari
1 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:10:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 >
3 > The mailer is irrelevant, this is a perfectly acceptable quoted-printable
4 > message that reads fine when sent from the list. It's clearly the
5 > mail2news gateway that is screwing things up by ignoring the MIME
6 > information in the mail and treating the whole thing as plain text.
7 >
8
9 I recompiled mutt with the nntp flag, re-emerged it, consulted google
10 about muttrc and nntp, used a little foul language, and got mutt to
11 read the usenet version of this list. It looks *way* better in mutt
12 (via lynx for quoted printable or html).
13
14 Would be nice if the mail2news gateway worked better, but this is
15 an acceptable workaround for me.
16 :)
17
18 --
19 caveat utilitor