[LST] MIME text/html pollution

5 posts ยท Sep 20 2001 to Sep 23 2001

From: Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@S...>

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:26:35 +0100

Subject: [LST] MIME text/html pollution

"David Reeves" <davidar@nortelnetworks.com>

you are leaking HTML from your MS exchange server you need to turn on plain
text email in your email client

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML> <HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version =
5.5.2654.89">
<TITLE>re: Fighter Rules</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

From: David Reeves <davidar@n...>

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:18:41 -0400

Subject: re: [LST] MIME text/html pollution

> [quoted text omitted]
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:26:35 +0100
From: "Tim Jones" <timcjones@waitrose.com>
Subject: [LST] MIME text/html pollution

"David Reeves" <davidar@nortelnetworks.com>

you are leaking HTML from your MS exchange server you need to turn on plain
text email in your email client

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML> <HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version =
5.5.2654.89">
<TITLE>re: Fighter Rules</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

From: Roger Books <books@m...>

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:41:59 -0400 (EDT)

Subject: Re: [LST] MIME text/html pollution

> On 21-Sep-01 at 10:22, David Reeves (davidar@nortelnetworks.com) wrote:

> I'm just as frustrated as you are!!!

You may be out of luck. MIME has been an internet standard for almost
10 years now.  It is quite reasonable to assume that any non-broken
e-mail client can handle seperating off a MIME server signature.

The only place it causes problems (assuming a modern e-mail
client, heck, even pine handles MIME) is in the archives and it is just
something I've learned to deal with. Since we are saving archives externally a
script to strip off HTML which is MIME seperated would be no big deal.

From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@j...>

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:19:13 EDT

Subject: Re: [LST] MIME text/html pollution

Macintosh?

Full thrust on main engines! Initiate evasive maneuvers. ECM active!

<grin>

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:18:41 -0400 "David Reeves"
> <davidar@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

From: Mark Sykes <tardis@b...>

Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:48:46 +1000

Subject: Re: [LST] MIME text/html pollution

> At 8:19 PM -0400 21/9/2001, Glenn M Wilson wrote:

Relax..

Macintoshes just *don't* [or won't] do that sort of thing They just don't care
what Windows users run into strife with.

Place blame on the real not feared culprit.

MarkS