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[rox-users] Upgrade warnings in zero install - 'blank msg'?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

[ sending to rox-users in case anyone else has this problem, and because
you might not be able to read a direct reply anyway! ]

On 5/6/06, Keith Hopper <kh...@wa...> wrote:
> Hi,
>      Every so often on the ROX mailing list I receive a message from you
> which has a blank content and an appended file containing what I presume
> was supposed to be in the content.

I'm not an email expert, but it looks OK to me. The header says:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Running the raw content through a base64-decoder does indeed produce the message.
Tested with:

$ python
>>> import base64
>>> base64.decodestring(file("rawdata").read())

>      It doesn't happen with every message - but has been more common over
> the last three or four months.

Probably it's the ones sent using gmail rather than from gmane.

>      In case it is of any help, I attach the raw message as received by my
> mail transport agent (!Hermes).

Any other mail readers having problems? The posts display in gmane and
thunderbird fine.


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Re: [rox-users] Upgrade warnings in zero install - 'blank msg'?

[Lennon C. <mag...@gm...>]

Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> Any other mail readers having problems? The posts display in gmane and
> thunderbird fine.
I've been noticing this in gmail. I haven't noticed the attachment,
thouhg - only the blank content.

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Lennon Victor Cook
"He who receives an idea from me receives without lessening, as he who
lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening" - Thomas
Jefferson

[rox-users] Re: Upgrade warnings in zero install - 'blank msg'?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Sun, 07 May 2006 14:42:32 +1000, Lennon Cook wrote:

> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
>> Any other mail readers having problems? The posts display in gmane and
>> thunderbird fine.
> I've been noticing this in gmail. I haven't noticed the attachment,
> thouhg - only the blank content.

Do you mean when you send with gmail other people can't read the messages,
or that you can't read my messages using gmail?

I've had a look in the settings, and I changed:

- Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages

to 

- Use default text encoding for outgoing messages

in Settings/General, and this seems to have stopped it from base64
encoding everything. Hopefully that will fix it. Still sounds like a
mail-reader bug, though...


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Re: [rox-users] Re: Upgrade warnings in zero install - 'blank msg'?

[Lennon C. <mag...@gm...>]

Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> Do you mean when you send with gmail other people can't read the messages=
,
> or that you can't read my messages using gmail?
The latter.

--
Lennon Victor Cook
"He who receives an idea from me receives without lessening, as he who
lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening" - Thomas
Jefferson