Re: Problems with gcc 3.2.

[Matt Armstrong <matt at lickey dot com>]

Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:11:18AM -0700, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>>>You can't send mail with attachments to this list, since some
>>>>filter strips them all.
>>>
>>> Not true.  For instance, see:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00100.html
>>>
>>> cgf
>>
>>Interesting.  There must be a bug in the mailing list software,
>>since it bounced a valid MIME multipart email I sent the list last
>>week:
>>
>>    http://www.lickey.com/~matt/bounce.txt
>
> I'm no Mime expert but that message looks improperly formatted to
> me.  There is no Content-Type after the message separators.

The RFCs say an implicit text/plain content type is assumed when
Content-Type is not present.  My mailer has been doing it this way for
years with no problems (except perhaps this one).

Oh well, whoever wrote the patch to ezmlm that does MIME filtering has
a bug.

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