[Mailman-Developers] MIME footers

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Feb 27 22:00:30 CET 2015


On Fri 2015-02-27 15:07:52 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> The biggest downside, and probably the main reason we append the footer text
> in the text/plain-compatible-charset case is because of crappy MUAs.  I think
> we *still* get complaints about the MIME composition not being rendered very
> well.  Their MUAs will show them attachments without the message content they
> actually care about.

Can you point us to those complaints?  I'd love to have a "wall of
shame" of MIME-aware-but-botched MUAs, complete with version number
information and a little carrot to give the devs if they get fixed.

> I wish I could say "fix the MUAs" but that's probably been futile since the
> day email was invented. ;)

:)

        --dkg


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