Here's a FWIW: after a bit more poking around, I've confirmed that
MUAs Pine on Linux and The Bat! on MSWindows confuse a long
series of dashes with the ^--boundary--$ string that is the end
of the digest. I've submitted a bug report to the Pine folks
at the University of Washington, and maybe someday they'll fix it.
One of my digest readers has submitted a report to The Bat! folks.
In the meantime, I've added a workaround recipe to my digest's
rc.local.s10 file that should prevent those buggy mailers from
truncating my digests.
#
#Quote long dashed lines, for broken MUAs
#
:0 B
* ^-------------------------------+
{
MID=`formail -x Message-ID`
LOG="article $MID: dashes escaped for broken MUAs
"
:0 fwb
| sed 's/^-------------------------------/- &/'
}
The other day I asked whether the digest boundary was escaped
and of course the answer is yes, as one would expect.
I was just sent an example of a truncated digest by a Linux
Pine user, and sure enough, the digest seems to end right
at some guy's signature that's preceded by a long string of
dashes (too long to be taken for a boundary by a rigorous MUA).
This would seem to implicate Pine in an embarrassing bug, and
I thought I'd ask if anyone here knows for sure if Pine 4.44
(from the guy's Message-ID) is a known culprit.
I'll scratch around and try to contact Pine developers, but
in the meantime, this is sure a surprise.
Jim
Does Smartlist's digester escape a series of dashes of just the right
length to be confused with the digest MIME boundary if an article
happens to contain a line starting with such a series? I assume
the answer is yes, as a misplaced boundary would wreak havoc with
the digest, and Smartlist is pretty clever about most such things.
I don't see this question addressed in the FAQ, so I hope it's ok
to ask here before I plunge into the source.
My question was inspired by a complaint from a subscriber to my
digest, saying that "The Bat!" is confused by any series of dashes
as long or longer than the boundary. Obviously such a series would
be common, since it's used so often to introduce those popular
advertizing footers in the free mailers. I'd prefer to respond to
this guy knowing the facts.
TIA,
Jim
I just set up a Smartlist mailing list, and although I have the
documentation I'm still pretty lost. Last night I sent out the first
message to the list and of course lots of the emails bounced. I now
need to unsubscribe those addresses. I already have hundreds of
addresses and expect to eventually have over 1000. How do I find the
address to which I need to unsubscribe? I found that if I type in the
first letter of the address an address beginning with that letter pops
up, but then I have to keep doing this over and over to eventually find
the right one. There must be an easier way? Thanks! Lynn
I asked this question July 17th, and got not even a wimper
I use a recipe on one of my mailing lists that sends an auto-reply. The
problem I am having is this. When spam hits the list and it auto-replies
and then bounces back because the reply-to sender is bogus, somehow this
has caused the server that bounces the e-mail to think my mail server is
spamming and then we got on the spamcop blacklist. Smarthost strips out
the originators original headers and replaces them with our info. Is
there anyway for the original headers to be retained so that the
offender is reported and not my server?
--
Jerry Sloan <jerry(a)fptech.net>
fP Technologies, Inc
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Strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you. Take your power back from those who have hurt you.
Hate, anger and resentment are destructive, eating away at the heart and soul of the person who carries them. They are absolutely incompatible with your own peace, joy and relaxation. Ugly emotions change who you are and contaminate every relationship you have. They can also take a physical toll on your body, including sleep disturbance, headaches, back spasms, and even heart attacks.
Forgiveness sets you free from the bonds of hatred, anger and resentment. The only way to rise above the negatives of a relationship in which you were hurt is to take the moral high ground, and forgive the person who hurt you.
Forgiveness is not about another person who has transgressed against you; it is about you. Forgiveness is about doing whatever it takes to preserve the power to create your own emotional state. It is a gift to yourself and it frees you. You don't have to have the other person's cooperation, and they do not have to be sorry or admit the error of their ways. Do it for yourself.
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