Re: [Fed-Talk] Slightly off topic list question...
Re: [Fed-Talk] Slightly off topic list question...
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Slightly off topic list question...
- From: "Robert M. Candey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:10:53 -0500
At 12:33 -0600 2005/12/20, Herman Steve wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked and explained before but...
Why is it that, on this particular "fed-talk" mailing list, I seem
to receive a fair number of messages where the body of the senders
message has been wrapped up into a text attachment. The actual
message body I receive has nothing more than the standard footer
that the mailing list adds. In order to read the message I have to
double-click a text attachment which then opens in TextEdit.
This seems to happen frequently or always with messages from certain
people and never with messages from others... so I suspect it has
something to do with the senders e-mail client, or possibly
encryption or signing or something like that.
I subscribe to several other Apple mailing lists and don't see this
behavior on them. Is this happening to anyone else on the list
and/or is there anything I can do about it on my end (I'm using
Apple Mail as my client)?
Thanks,
Steve
I also found this problem on the Fed-Talk list that I believe I
finally tracked down to a bug in MS Exchange Server, where it
extracted some of the body text as attachments. This seems to occur
when the message is marked "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;", either
when a real attachment is inserted in the middle of the text or when
the message is signed. This may also be partly related to my use of
Eudora as email client.
The problem is well described in a bug report for MS Exchange Server
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;153464>, but
the cause may be different. There are also references online to
problems involving server-side virus checkers and such; for instance
<http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=373666>.
My fix was to switch email addresses on the Fed-Talk list to one not
going through Exchange Server.
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