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[webmin-devel] [Webmin/Usermin] Sending eMails

[Martin M. <mar...@de...>]

Howdy,

I just had an eMail-conversation with someone who is telling me that
he is blocking all eMails which are _not_ "text/plain".
During this conversation I switched to Usermin to write an answer and
suddenly I got an eMail that my eMail has been trashed because of this

>X-Originating-IP: 193.158.0.42
>X-Mailer: Usermin 1.037
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=3D"bound1063106750"

While sending eMails back and froth we came to this, that whatever
kind of eMail is send with Webmin/usermin it is always something like

>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=3D"bound1063106750"

Questions: Why?


kind regards

Martin Mewes

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Novacote Flexpack - Division of COIM Deutschland GmbH
c/o IT/IS-Department - Hamburg - Germany

Re: [webmin-devel] [Webmin/Usermin] Sending eMails

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:33, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I just had an eMail-conversation with someone who is telling me that
> he is blocking all eMails which are _not_ "text/plain".
> During this conversation I switched to Usermin to write an answer and
> suddenly I got an eMail that my eMail has been trashed because of this
> 
> >X-Originating-IP: 193.158.0.42
> >X-Mailer: Usermin 1.037
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1063106750"
> 
> While sending eMails back and froth we came to this, that whatever
> kind of eMail is send with Webmin/usermin it is always something like
> 
> >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1063106750"
> 
> Questions: Why?

By default, Usermin always MIME-encodes emails, even if they contain
only a single plain text MIME part. However, there is an option on the
Preferences page to have Usermin send pure plain text messages if
possible.

 - Jamie

Re: [webmin-devel] [Webmin/Usermin] Sending eMails

[Martin M. <mm...@ag...>]

Hi Jamie,

Am Dienstag, 9. September 2003 14:33 schrieb
 Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:

> > >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=3D"bound1063106750"
> >
> > Questions: Why?
>
> By default, Usermin always MIME-encodes emails, even if they
> contain only a single plain text MIME part. However, there is an
> option on the Preferences page to have Usermin send pure plain text
> messages if possible.

=46ound it ;-)
Maybe we could all negotiate on having "text/plain" as default?
Or what matters could cause this not to do?


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Re: [webmin-devel] [Webmin/Usermin] Sending eMails

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:08, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 9. September 2003 14:33 schrieb
>  Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>:
> 
> > > >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1063106750"
> > >
> > > Questions: Why?
> >
> > By default, Usermin always MIME-encodes emails, even if they
> > contain only a single plain text MIME part. However, there is an
> > option on the Preferences page to have Usermin send pure plain text
> > messages if possible.
> 
> Found it ;-)
> Maybe we could all negotiate on having "text/plain" as default?
> Or what matters could cause this not to do?

I only made the use of MIME encoding the default for consistency's sake,
so that all messages sent by Usermin are MIME encoded. Every mail client
these days should be able to it ..

 - Jamie

Re: [webmin-devel] [Webmin/Usermin] Sending eMails

[Martin M. <mar...@de...>]

Hi Jamie,

Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:

>> Found it ;-)
>> Maybe we could all negotiate on having "text/plain" as default?
>> Or what matters could cause this not to do?
>
>I only made the use of MIME encoding the default for consistency's sake,
>so that all messages sent by Usermin are MIME encoded. Every mail client
>these days should be able to it ..

Sure, I am just talking about that maybe more "so called" IT-Admins
may think that all "multipart" is "evil". Well maybe just this
particular one is plain paranoid :->



kind regards

Martin Mewes

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Novacote Flexpack - Division of COIM Deutschland GmbH
c/o IT/IS-Department - Hamburg - Germany