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[Raymond Scholz <rscholz@tzi.de>]

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Hello!

A few days ago, somebody reported in a German newsgroup that he
couldn't automatically display a mail with a correctly declared
Content-Type: text/html. I told him that I've never had any problems
with this. Well, I now ran into the same problem. 

I got two HTML mails (no multipart, SPAM of course). The first
displays fine, the second doesn't and appears as HTML source. Looking
at the MIME headers, I can't figure what causes this behaviour. 

When saving the HTML content in an extra file, W3 mode displays both
mails as expected.

Here is the second (incorrectley displayed) mail:


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From: wampun@necs.postmaster.co.uk
To: @informatik.uni-bremen.de@vhost2.systemv.com
Subject: Earn 100K Plus a year! -aixnyg
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:58:23 -0500
Message-ID: <vlmmixw.wjsmwc@jvxrjgu.jarh66@nexxmail.com>

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I did not include the mail which is rendered correctly because it's
rather big.

I put them here:

http://rscholz.dusnet.de/spam_ok.mail
http://rscholz.dusnet.de/spam_not_ok.mail

Cheers,
  Ray
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