Majordomo doesn't recognize MIME

Thu Mar 14 08:12:20 PST 2002

Thanks Heather! 

Rick, is everything working out now?

*S*

At 11:12 PM 3/13/2002 -0800, Heather wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> Would someone like to explain this issue to Rick, please?
>> 
>> Stewart
> 
>It's one of the FAQ at http://www.linuxgazette.com/
>
>We get people trying to send us email in plaintext+HTML all the time; 
>most of the answerfolk there refuse to answer such messages, but the more 
>kindly of us pass them the link.
>
>Mail list servers should not be expected to handle MIME encoded attachments
>during administrivia handling - it's too much of an obvious place to find 
>serious processing bugs that may lead to either root or mail-admin exploits.
>
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