[Mailman-Users] Palm Versamail user claims empty e-mail message bodies

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri Jul 18 17:59:40 CEST 2008


Clark Venable wrote:
> I just started using Mailman (2.1.11) via Dreamhost.  I have one user
> who tells me that, on his Palm Treo using Versamail (all software
> up-to-date) he receives messages from the list, but the message body
> is always blank. I've searched and read the posts on this forum and
> have a) asked him if his e-mails have attachments that may actually
> contain the message (there is not attachment) and b) have removed the
> string of text that I was adding to the beginning of messages. Is
> there anything obvious I'm missing (besides just encouraging him to
> face the facts and get an iPhone)?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas,


It's hard to say without seeing the an actual list message, but you may 
be able to work around this by setting content filtering to accept only 
text/plain parts or by making sure that msg_header and msg_footer are empty.

Or you could suggest to your user to subscribe to the 'plain' format digest.

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