On Dec 20, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Robert M. Candey wrote:
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
My fix was to switch email addresses on the Fed-Talk list to one not going through Exchange Server.
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