Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with gcc 3.2.
References: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E763027 AT ex02 DOT idirect DOT net>
	<87adkpauis DOT fsf AT squeaker DOT lickey DOT com>
	<20021104214340 DOT GA5867 AT redhat DOT com>
	<878z089c21 DOT fsf AT squeaker DOT lickey DOT com>
	<20021105172500 DOT GI5187 AT redhat DOT com>
From: Matt Armstrong <matt AT lickey DOT com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:35:08 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20021105172500.GI5187@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's
 message of "Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:25:00 -0500")
Message-ID: <873cqfapir.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2
 (i386-debian-linux-gnu)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300

Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:11:18AM -0700, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT 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.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/