Re: please unsubscribe me

Mike Scott wrote:

On
25/10/11 18:34, [email protected] wrote:

Gene Young wrote:

On 10/25/2011 1:09 PM, M Henri Day wrote:

So, at least in this instance, it's not a
function of the mail client -

the text simply hasn't been added to the html message part by the OOo

mail list gubbins.

One problem with that theory. If you view the HTML message as plain

text, the unsub rubric IS there, so it has obviously been added. Why it

doesn't show with HTML rendering I'll leave to more learned people to

puzzle out.

The HTML and text versions are separate parts of a multi-part MIME

Which is what I tried to show.

message. The unsubscribe info appears to be
added to the first (text)

part of the message, but not subsequent alternative parts. If you set

yes.

the client to display as plain text, it
probably displays the separate

plain text part rather than removing the formatting codes from the HTML

which is what the plain text is for.

part. The solution is not as easy as simply
adding the info to every

part, as other parts may be images or other attachments. It should in

theory be possible for the list software to work its way though

multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative content types, working out

which to add the info to, but that's not quite so simple...

I suspect in general impossible.

However, an over-clever MUA just /might/ take the signature from the
plain text and tag it onto on the html. But that's just a shot in the
dark.

I wonder if a message sent as HTML-only (without a plain text
equivalent

part) would have the unsubscribe info added...?

I'm not sure TB can send html-only emails, or I'd give it a whirl. (And
I see your MUA, Mark, isn't plain sailing either :-) )

SeaMonkey has an option for "Rich Text (HTML) Only" format which I'm
sure I selected just now, but the copy in my sent folder was plain-text
only so I suspect finger trouble. I've just checked it with several
emails to myself, and all have come out as HTML only. This one
definitely has HTML-only selected, so if it comes out as plain text
again there must be something else going on...