[Rhodes22-list] Problems with attachments to the list

[Hank]

Wally,

You're welcome.  I have been using Gmail since back when it was by
invitation only, probably about 3 years.  I absolutely love it.

Hank


On 4/24/07, TN Rhodey <tnrhodey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Success....I used default encoding on GMail. The free sites do provide
> limited options....I just never thought to check. Thanks to Hank who I
> think
> suggested GMail, -  Wally
>
> On 4/24/07, TN Rhodey <tnrhodey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> > > Lake Sinclair, GA
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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