[Rhodes22-list] Problems with attachments to the list

[TN Rhodey]

John, I didn't think the OS would matter but I really wasn't sure. I have
been able to send attachments to this list since day one from both Hotmail
and Yahoo. I have had problems viewing some PDFs. Some have suggested G
Mail....here we go

On 4/23/07, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I just wanted to throw in some information about the problems people
> are seeing sending attachments to the list -
>
> It has very little to do with what OS you use.  It has everything to
> do with what kind of e-mail software you use.
>
> Internet e-mail standards were never designed to carry binary data
> (such as photos).  However, as technology evolved, that became an
> obvious requirement and various schemes were devised to convert
> binary data into plain ASCII, so it would travel nicely through the
> mail transport system.  These encoding schemes are called things like
> MIME, UUEncode, BinHex, Base64 and others.
>
> The reason some people can send attachments and others cannot is
> because of the way your e-mail software converts and packages the
> attachment for delivery.  The "Mailman" software that is running the
> mailing list is apparently only accepting one kind of encoding.  So,
> if your software happens to be doing exactly what Mailman expects,
> your attachment comes thru.  Otherwise, it gets sent to the bit
> bucket (or garbled, but that's uncommon).
>
> If you are using web-based e-mail such as HotMail, Gmail, Yahoo,
> etc... you probably have little choice of what kind of encoding to
> use for attachments.  It's whatever the service provider decides to
> use.  If you use real e-mail software, like Thunderbird, Eudora, or
> Outbreak... uh, I mean Outlook, you can try fiddling with the
> attachment encoding settings to see what works.
>
> If you are following along on www.nabble.com, there's yet another
> layer of software between the original e-mail and Nabble's threaded
> format.  However, if I understand correctly, Nabble still relies on
> Mailman to deliver the content that it then acts upon.
>
> In the e-mail headers, there is a clue -
>
> "X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.9"
>
> This is telling us that some kind of filtering is going on, but we
> don't know what its parameters are.  Until we can get Michael
> Meltzer's attention and feedback on what the Mailman software expects
> for attachments, there's not much we can do.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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