Re: Warning re. obscure reformat fwd mail with attachment

Eduardo Chappa <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:13:56 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, David Morris wrote:

:) It looks like what happened is that Dice sent the original email as
:) text/html with appropriate <br> tags to force new lines. When pine
:) forwarded the mail, it retained the text/html content type, but
:) didn't include <br> tags.

This seems like a bug in Pine. The problem seems to be that Pine is 
not changing the content-type to text/plain. I suspect that when you 
forward the message you do not see the <html> tags, but plain text. If 
that is the case, then the problem is the content type of the message.

In this case, what you need to do is to convince Pine that it needs to tag 
your messag as text/plain and not as text/html. There is a trick to send 
the content-type of a message when sending the mail, and you can use it to 
change the content-type to text/plain. An explanation of how to do this 
can be found in the following post in comp.mail.pine

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.pine/browse_thread/thread/7c187285b7d02441/

Hopefully you can use that trick to change the content-type to text/plain, 
rather than (as explained in the post) to text/html.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/
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