[Sysadmin] Re: [Content] garrett, fyi

[Seb Potter]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:16:04 -0400, rudy <rudy937 at rogers.com> wrote:

> garret, fyi, all your posts show up with no body and an attachment
>
> when i get a post from you, i have to double click it to open it in its 
> own
> message window

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This isn't actually garrett, it's Mailman.

When Garrett sends mail, he digitally signs it, and the signature appears 
as a Mime-multipart message with the message actually wrapped in a mime- 
type section. Mailman has previsouly been setup to reject mime emails, 
which lead to garrett's loss of list posting ability for a while.

This was recently fix0red after much hackery to allow the mime-type for his 
signed mail through.

However, Mailman sux0rz with the mime jiggy, so it treats it as a 
text/plain and tries to append the list's .sig (all the sub/unsub gumph) at 
the end. This adds text/plain content outside the boundaries that are 
listed in the header, causing most mail readers to barf like a drunk 
choking on a dodgy kebab.

There are 2 fixes to this:

Either the very unlikely fix:

1. Garrett's signing doohickey that he uses should send mail as text/plain. 
That it doesn't isn't wrong, per-se, but it is bad.

Or the realistic workaround to the actual problem:

2. Mailman should be configured to convert whatever mime-type is being sent 
by garrett's mail client into plain text, which is what it already is, just 
under a different name.


I can't do the first, but I can do the second with appropriate 
username/password.

- seb


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