email clients and hosts and Fn HTML and and..

From: Mike Harrison Via chugalug 
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Rabbit Holes:

Because of some original design goals in MELEE, modifying the "body" of 
an email is not done. Which is why you see strange characters when the 
senders encoding does not match the actual emails or encoding gets 
mixes. The goal for that was the ability to do some GPG/PGP signing and 
encryption for some other lists which needs that body to be untainted.

When a sender sends JUST Plain Text, you'll see additional info added.
Otherwise, the mail client reading the email effectively strips it 
because you see either the text or html block of the original message,

In some mail clients, and why I have a few email addresses on this list, 
you can view headers/source easily and see the plain text block before 
the MIME encoded blocks of text and HTML. In some, you can't.

So either:  RD and a few other people using protonmail and such view 
headers for the original sender, or the list does what others do:
strip, reformat, modify and then send the altered body as MIME encoded 
blocks of text and html (same plain text, but wrapped with some HTML) 
and toss the ability for the list to sign and encrypt. I'll keep that 
for the other lists. Option B: We go old school and sign our emails 
ourselves.

Email sucks.. Email is awesome.. and Email sucks.

--Meuon-- aka Mike Harrison



-- 
Mike Harrison
mike@geeklabs.com
mobile: 423 605-6943



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From: r d flowers Via chugalug 
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RD/Rick Flowers


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 of header. I would support Mike's plan B, especially if no-one is succesfu=
l w/ a technical solution.

--RDFlowers