On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Wilkinson Charlie E wrote:
...but you already knew that didn't you?
First, an apology for previously sending MIME/html crap to the list, even after being told about it and after I thought I had it turned off, and another apology for this OT message while I'm at it.
I think I've got it now. Using OL2k(CW) here, and I had set "plain text" everywhere I could find to set it. After visiting the Zope mailing list archives today, I was alarmed to find that I was *still* sending out MIME/html attachments. (A hearty thanks to the list members for not beating me up about this.) I checked the messages in my Sent box and these very same MIME/html attachement messages were listed as having been sent in plain text. Grrr...
After much bitching, whining and research, I stumbled across what is possibly a fix. It seems that OL2k requires Outlook Express for some of its functionality, especially some aspects of handling SMTP (Internet) e-mail. I've never used OE for anything (on purpose), but I fired it up and checked the format for sending messages. It was set to html. It's now set to plain text. So maybe, just *maybe* its fixed now. (If it's not, then I've got some more bitching and whining to do...)
I'm hoping this info might help anyone else here who may be having this problem.
Sorry, Charlie
This one still seems to have an HTML attachment as well :(. I don't think most people notice since Outlook does actually do the right thing and sent a plain text version and an HTML version, as a result I never see the HTML version (unless I go looking). (Oh by right thing I mean per MIME spec, not right thing overall since they end up chewing twice as much bandwidth, disk space etc etc). Sorry I can't offer any hints on how to fix it (except to ssh to a linux box and use mutt ;). Cheers, Benno