Michael Sullivan writes:
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:51, Michael Sullivan wrote:Here is the header for todays Garfield comic strip:
Return-Path: <48813204_22302_619@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Received: from mail2.gophercentral.com (mail2.gophercentral.com [64.106.244.18]) by bullet.espersunited.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i6F7YN8S003761 for <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:34:24 -0500 Received: from news.gophercentral.com (news.gophercentral.com by mail2.gophercentral.com (listd1.1) with SMTP id 48813204_22302_619 for <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:30:39 -0500 Message-Id: <48813204_22302_619@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Garfield - Tree Frogs From: Garfield <listmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:30:39 -0500 To: michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Evolution-Source: imap://michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
I think I see the problem. The Content-Type is listed as text/plain. It should probably be text/html.
There's also another problem: the âMime-Version:â header appears to be missing. Unless this header is present, the Content-Type header is ignored.
Even if the header was changed to text/html, all properly-written MIME software will still interpret this message as consisting of plain text content.
Is there anything I can do about it on my end?
You most certainly can. I recall that in your first message you have described your problem as: Evolution displays this message as an HTML message when it's in POP3 mode and has to parse the message itself. Only when Evolution is in IMAP mode, and relies on the IMAP server to parse the message, do you see the raw HTML.
What you can do now is send a congratulatory note to the Evolution team, thanking them for finally matching the Microsoftian idiocy, bug-for-bug, by adapting the philosophy from Microsoft's E-mail virus distribution software, called âOutlook Expressâ, of ignoring the actual stated E-mail content, and instead displaying it as HTML if it sees something that looks like HTML in the message. All in the name of âuser-friendlinessâ.
If you recall: there were a number of times last year when all the anti-virus companies had to scramble like mad when it came to light that -- for example -- if an E-mail attachment was labeled as an image/jpeg picture, but its payload looked like a Windows binary, Outlook Express will ignore the stated MIME type of image/jpeg, and run the binary payload. The same held true for Javascript attachments, and many other âinnovativeâ kinds of attachments.
I'm thrilled that the same exciting feature is now apparently implemented in Evolution!
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