Re: digests and MIME

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

Colin> It is formatted incorrectly if it has not been decoded.

Steven> You're getting it transmogrified into QP I presume?

Colin> Yes I am.  See firther down for the relevent headers.

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Colin> I have to disagree with this.  Some people will intentionally post
Colin> digests as MIME messages, the same way that they would post normal
Colin> message as MIME.  We should be able to handle this correctly.

Colin> As an example, you posted yours that way.  I received it here through
Colin> ding@ifi.  Here are the relevent headers from the message:

FAQ> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94)
FAQ> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
FAQ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

It's a problem with your mailer, or something between you and
ifi.uio.no. 

The way I posted it *and* the way I received it:

Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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