SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message <<

Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:22:57 -0700
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail Three (UNUSUAL RECEIVE FAILURE)

Content Type: text/plain

Oop, it didn't even occur to me that the log files would be that big. Sorry about that.

Sheridnan

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <20080316221114-51919-5@scoug.com>, on 03/16/08
> at 10:11 PM, "Robert Blair" said:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Plain text, just large, with a few small attachments. I don't know why
>> so many people had problems with the message.
>
> The answer is obvious - because they are effectively using a browser as an
> e-mail client (i.e. SeaMonkey or Thunderbird.).
>
> Sheridan could have avoided most of the delays and much of the content of
> this thread by zipping up the data and attaching the result. The result
> would have been much smaller than 2.7MB and would have been processed as
> an attachment.
>
> What Sheridan did was tell his mail client to include the text files as
> inline text files
>
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> name="ipformat-direct_to_Web.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filename="ipformat-direct_to_Web.txt"
>
> This says, unless overridden by client specific settings, that the content
> should be formatted as part of the message body and so it was.
>
> Just another example of computers doing what you tell them too.
>
> Steven
>

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"postmaster@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 19 | March | 2008 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.