OT: Messages to the list with attachments (was Re: body of emails in an attachment...)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> Actually, Brian, I'm going to CC you on this, so you'll get two
> copies.  Tell us if it -only- looks that way to OE from the list, or if it
> looks that way in any case, please?  I want to verify that, as Ken says,
> it's actually the list mangling it, and that my mail doesn't ordinarily
> look this way to OE now, and not just the way mutt does it in
> general.  I should think Ken's right, but I just want to be sure.
[...]

When sent directly to me, it comes like this:

========================================================

Within the header:

> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
>         protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5"
> Content-Disposition: inline

Then the body begins with:

> --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
> Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:01:59PM -0500, Kenneth Brody achieved the spontaneo=
> us
[...]

Followed by your text, and finally:

> --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5
> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (SunOS)
> 
> iD8DBQFAbiE5yc4q0g8FZsMRAlWUAKDOv4VxjlIEPqkniuWDiiBOo4I+pgCfQ/r6
> 2NV8IF97QBSXwvWrwW/lsJk=
> =x33p
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--

========================================================

When sent through the list, a different e-mail came through like this.
(I haven't yet received the e-mail you cc'ed to me through the list.)

The header now has right after the "List-*" headers:

> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1762750408=="

The body begins:

> --===============1762750408==
> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
>         protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/"
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> 
> --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Only Keith F Weatherhead would say something like:
> >=20
> > Both of these programss were written by Kevin Clark who I believe is=20

Followed by the body of your message, followed by:

> --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/
> Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (SunOS)
> 
> iD8DBQFAbfeLyc4q0g8FZsMRAijmAJ9Wd4iF9laoJdab5mgesOY5lA+z8wCeMWDq
> KaZR0ScVuxwcaAgf1TgYeh0=
> =j+jb
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/--
> 
> --===============1762750408==
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Filepro-list mailing list
> Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list
> 
> --===============1762750408==--

Notice how the e-mail is now "multipart/mixed", and within those
multiparts, the first is your entire e-mail, attachments and all,
and the second is the footer added by mailman.

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