At 11:10 AM -0500 2/19/01, Tom Mahoney is rumored to have typed:
OK,now I have the digest going out - sort of. It was an attachment that included each digested message as a separate message - confirmed with Eudora and Outlook Express. <snip> Is there something else going on here, or is SmartMail just that bad?
(*sigh*) You mean, is SmartList just that good to default to sending digests using the correct MIME type, and your ability to set your preferences just that bad, I think. (Be a little careful assigning "fault" when you don't understand the _correct_ way to do things in the first place...it will not win you friends, but may influence people adversely.) Look, in Eudora, it's simple enough to turn OFF "Receive MIME Digests as Attachments," and I'd imagine it can be done in Outlook Express as well (although every time I give OE credit for being a sensible email client, someone here proves me wrong so no bets). This allows the _user_ to make the decision on how to receive the digests, not the maintainer. Of course, when you deal with stupid users (and we all do) who blame you because they don't know how to run their own software, you need to be willing to take a hit or two for the benefit of the whole. If you are absoutely determined to change that (and for the record, I've done it myself on a digest or two, so I don't claim there may not be valid reasons), you'll need to edit the .bin/digest shell script to change the content type of the mailed digest issues. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, PLEASE don't muck with it until you have a little time to read up on what MIME is, how it works, and the various content types allowed. (I'm honestly _not_ being a wise guy here, just telling you that all the cut-and-paste instructions in the WORLD won't do you any good if you don't understand what the heck you're doing. And you are now into an area where you NEED to understand what you're doing to properly perform the cost/benefit analysis as to whether or not you SHOULD do this. Otherwise, you might seriously give some thought to using Topica or YahooGroups for your mailing lists.) Charlie (who wonders how long it'll take for you to run into the HTML problem after changing the content type...I'm putting money on one issue, myself...)