Re: demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/x-tar which had a name
Re: demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/x-tar which had a name
- Subject: Re: demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/x-tar which had a name
- From: Denis Stanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:04:24 +1300
Thank you all three for a rapid explanation of where demime is getting
into the picture (or in this case, removing the picture altogether)
the problem for me is that this some of our most helpful list members
are conflicting with demime and may not know it.
for example
From: email@hidden
Date: Thu Nov 6, 2003 6:59:09 AM Pacific/Auckland
[demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text]
From: Mankit Sze <email@hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 5, 2003 11:07:47 AM Pacific/Auckland
I guess that an example may be worth a thousand words.
[demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/x-tar which
had a name of TestWOAppletCodebase.tar]
I think Jonathan's post got through, though somewhat neutered, but
Mankit's made no sense to me until I realized that the important part
was missing. I guess if he replied to the original questioner as well
as to the list then his attachment would have gone where it was most
needed. That would explain why when Jonathan has replied to me
directly, thus sending to two copies, only the one coming via the list
was demimed.
I suppose this removal of attachments from lists is going to become the
norm thanks to the proliferation of junk mail, or simply thoughtless
overuse of the facility, but I hope this short thread serves to remind
posters that if you send messages that are other than plain text they
may not be getting through.
Denis
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
The Apple lists do not allow attachments or even large messages. At
times
this makes describing a problem and the solution somewhat of a
challenge.
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Cliff Tuel wrote:
Is is a feature of this list, provided for our mutual protection
Yes, it's our servers -- but I think it's more to save bandwidth, not
for
your protection. (Just a guess, since Macs don't tend to pass around
viruses by email.)
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 10:28 AM, Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
wrote:
Greetings Denis,
Is is a feature of this list, provided for our mutual protection, or
is
is something my ISP is doing on the invalid assumption that I am a
poor
PC user and need to be filtered?
demime is a rockin' script the kills email attachments that would be
otherwise forwarded to all subscribers of a mailing list:
<http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html>
It executes on Apple's servers when the posting is accepted for
delivery
to the list.
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