From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 06:45:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E3437B401 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 06:45:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771AA43F93 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 06:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.43.88]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030329144553.QPIT9562.out002.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:45:53 -0600 Message-ID: <3E85B19D.9060201@mac.com> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:45:49 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030329064308.534322A8BB@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030329064308.534322A8BB@canning.wemm.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [129.44.43.88] at Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:45:53 -0600 Subject: Re: Weird messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:45:56 -0000 Peter Wemm wrote: [ ... ] > It looks like the mime support in mailman is just too smart for its own > good.. majordomo just blindly appended the trailer, but mailman is doing > it by adding a new mime section. Eww. Its perfectly valid mime, but > obviously the nesting is making things interesting to some mailers. The general problem of appending stuff-- mailing list info, annoying legal disclaimers :-), etc-- to email, and having the result be even approximately correct when viewed by the wide variety of mail user agents, is a lot harder than it may appear. MIME-aware MUA's that mishandle multipart content-types cause most of the difficulty. Also, MailMan needs to be able to send to list members who prefer either plain text or MIME formatted... -- -Chuck