Yes, I took a close look at the message source, and here's what seems to
be happening:
1) The sender's original message is in a section of the email marked
"text/plain", which is what most mail clients display when they aren't
set up to handle HTML
2) When the sjsu server strips off the offending HTML, however, it
appends a second "text/plain" section to the email, following the first,
original text/plain section
3) When an Email client like Thunderbird reads the Email, it sees the
two "text/plain" sections, and makes a decision to display only the
second one.
Dave, is there no way to have the sjsu server either just append the
TRUNCATED message to the end of the original text/plain section, or to
have it insert the TRUNCATED section *above* the original text/plain
section?
Bill Dennis
be happening:
1) The sender's original message is in a section of the email marked
"text/plain", which is what most mail clients display when they aren't
set up to handle HTML
2) When the sjsu server strips off the offending HTML, however, it
appends a second "text/plain" section to the email, following the first,
original text/plain section
3) When an Email client like Thunderbird reads the Email, it sees the
two "text/plain" sections, and makes a decision to display only the
second one.
Dave, is there no way to have the sjsu server either just append the
TRUNCATED message to the end of the original text/plain section, or to
have it insert the TRUNCATED section *above* the original text/plain
section?
Bill Dennis
Timothy Balcer wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> You may not realize this, but the messages that are showing to you as
> truncated are not, in fact, being truncatedThe original message is
> intact but not being displayed because of some MIME magic.. MIME is
> just a method of formatting information in email and if you have two
> MIME messages stacked together, depending on what they are some email
> clients will only show the -last- one in the chain.
>
> Which means, if someone has a signature with HTML (or whatever) in it,
> the list truncates it out and attaches the familiar "YOU HAVE BEEN
> TRUNCATED" message onto the end..
>
> Your email client then displays only the second bit.. namely the
> truncation message.
>
> The answer is to look at the 'original' or 'source' of the email. In
> Gmail, which many of us use, you can click on the little arrow next to
> the 'Reply' fast tab and it will show 'show original'. You will then
> be able to view the whole message.
>
> A few of these truncated messages actually are truncated in the body
> of the message, but I've not noticed very many. Find out how to 'show
> source' or 'show original' with your email client and you should be
> ok.
>
> --T
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