Re: Am I posting in html?

On Sunday 28 December 2008 3:43:33 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 28 December 2008 11:26:21 brian wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > | I have a problem.  A friend tells me that I am posting html mail to
> >
> > lists.  My
> >
> > | kmail is set to NOT send html, and when reading the messages kmail
> >
> > tells me
> >
> > | that there is no html, so what is it that he is seeing?
> > |
> > | Anne
> >
> > Thunderbird sees two attachments to your message, a 'signature.asc'
> > containing your PGP signature, and a 'Part1.2' containing the
> > following (minus the quotes)
> >
> > | KDE PIM users mailing list
> > | [email protected]
> > | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users
> >
> > I know that it's a long shot, but is there any chance that he's
> > mistaking these attachments for "HTML mail"?
>
> I doubt it - he's an experienced user.  We have discussed this quite a bit,
> and are beginning to have a suspicion about it.  The problem seems to occur
> when I reply to a relatively clueless newbie that uses thunderbird, gmail,
> or one of the other applications that default to html.  Fedora put the
> messages through MIMEDefang - I wonder if that is stripping out html but
> accidentally leaving something in that is upsetting the readers?  FWIW, my
> friend reads in thunderbird, not in kmail.
>
> I'd like to get to the bottom of this, but I'm grateful to all for the
> reassurance that lists are not routinely nuisanced by me :-)
>
> Anne
Forgot to mention your email with the question did not contain html.
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Russ
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