[Mailman-Users] Why do some get digests as a series of attachments?

[Richard Johnson]

Actually, my list is setup to send all digests in text format.  I was toying with the idea of sending in MIME format. Maybe that would be better?

But it sounds as if you're saying that a user can specify that they want MIME instead of there configured version, somewhere in their personal config?


/raj
(sent from iPhone)


> On Sep 2, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/02/2016 06:48 PM, Richard Johnson wrote:
>> This is strange.  One of my list users gets digest messages as a series of attachments, while all other users receive digests as all text, with the messages one after the other.
>> 
>> The person who gets the attachments has a Cox.net address.  Maybe they're doing something to it?
> 
> 
> That has nothing to do with it. There are two digest formats.
> 
> Plain text is a digest with all non-plain text parts stored aside and
> replaced by links and flattened into a single plain text message.
> 
> MIME format is a multipart digest with each original message in its own
> sub-part.
> 
> Your user who gets 'attachments' has elected to receive MIME digests.
> You can see this on the user's options page or the admin membership list
> pages.
> 
> Whether a MIME digest is rendered with the message parts inline, only as
> attachments or not at all is a function of the mail client reading the
> message.
> 
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