[wellylug] Weird problem where emails are split into attachments

Jim Cheetham jim at gonzul.net
Wed Mar 15 15:08:50 NZDT 2006


Here's what my mutt renders for one of Jethro's messages (with some
content removed to keep the post smallish ...) :-

[-- Attachment #1 --]                                                                                                                          
[-- Type: multipart/signed, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 1.3K --]                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                               
[-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Mar 15 02:04:03 2006) --]                                                                            
[-- End of PGP output --]                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                               
[-- The following data is signed --]                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                               
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:15 +1300, Peter Jones wrote:                                                                                          
> BTW why do messages from some posters (Jethro, for one) come as an                                                                           
> attachment, which in turn contain another attachment, which has to be opened                                                                 
> to read the message? Now THAT'S awkward and makes top posting seem pretty                                                                    
> mild by comparison                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                               
because I'm special, and my emails want to be noticed. ;-)                                                                                     
...                                                                                                                                               
Jethro Carr                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                               
www.jethrocarr.com                                                                                                                             
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                               
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[-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.1K --]                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                               
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-jim




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