Hello, Here is the first of many questions I have about smartlist. Is there a way to make the digest go out without being an attachment? I have several members that are complaining about it. BTW I am not new to running a list. The 15th of this month I'll go in to my third year but that is done without a server. I have 920+ subscribers on that list and am well aware of all the gripes and groans sent in because of someone jerk not liking this or that. I would like to loose the attachment though. Help would be appreciated. Cheers David
At 2:11 PM -0500 12/6/00, David Smith is rumored to have typed:
Is there a way to make the digest go out without being an attachment?
Yes. Change your subscribers' email client, since it's the client that is causing the problem, not SmartList. (Sensible clients should "explode" the multipart/digest issue into seperate messages, not treat the entire digest as an attachment.) Ok, ok, I know, that wasn't terribly helpful, but I wanted to get it off my chest. Anyway...
Help would be appreciated.
In .bin/digest change: Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" ...to: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Note that this will REQUIRE you to reject HTML email, since if you accept it in your list the messages in your digest will look like left-over doggie doo with all the HTML tags all over the place...oh, and did I mention that AOL 6.0 can _only_ send email in HTML? This will also affect EVERY digest on your server, unless you understand enough shell scripting to add an if/fi conditional to change it only for a specific list. (It's simple enough to do, but shouldn't be attempted unless you have done some shell scripting.) See how a brain-damaged mail client which doesn't properly handle the multipart/digest MIME type is generating a whole lot of work for you? Charlie (who's feeling really curmudgeonly today...)
"CS" == Charlie Summers <charlie@lofcom.com> writes:
CS> At 2:11 PM -0500 12/6/00, David Smith is rumored to CS> have typed: >> Is there a way to make the digest go out without being an >> attachment? [...] CS> In .bin/digest change: [...] CS> This will also affect EVERY digest on your CS> server, unless you understand enough shell scripting CS> to add an if/fi conditional to change it only for a CS> specific list. I think it is possible to put a copy of .bin/digest into the list directory and change that copy (don't forget to set the x-bit). According to the setting of PATH in rc.init, the current working directory is searched first for commands, so the local copy will be preferred. (At least, the list directory used to be the current working directory when rc.* are processed. Did this change since I checked last? I admit, that has been some years ago.) Hans-Albert -- Hans-Albert Schneider <Hans-Albert.Schneider@mchp.siemens.de> Siemens AG phone: (+49) 89 636 45445 Corporate Technology fax: (+49) 89 636 42284 Munich, Germany -- To get my public PGP key, send me a mail with subject "send key" --
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