Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:05:29 -0600 From: "Brian Davis" <stargate@cableone.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Email attachments Message-ID: <000e01c2ed46$ab8551d0$0200a8c0@Tower>
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> > I have a question. Most of the emails on this list display > > text in the message body, but some have a blank body. > > Instead, they have attachments which contain the message > > text and the sender's PGP signature. All of Greg Lehey's > > messages are like this. > > So what is your question? > > KeS > > (Ok, ok - GUESSING what your question is; some mailers use MIME encoding > for the body of the message, as well as for any attachments. Other > mailers treat any MIME-encoded data as an attachment, even if it is text. > Hope this helps.) > When you shoot a MIME, do you use a silencer? Sorry. My question is, why would anyone intentionally send a message that requires others to open it with a text editor, especially since the message is in plain text anyway. As I mentioned in my original post, I use Outlook Express as my email client. Are there other MUAs that do a better job of displaying MIME-emcoded messages? Brian Davis > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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