[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Blank Messages

[Torsten Dittel]

>>The convert_html_to_plaintext is stripping *everything* for some reason.

> It isn't. Just look at the messages that are coming through with HTML
> originals. If you're curious, look for list messages with this in the headers:
> X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5

> You'll see plenty of them, and the HTML stripper is working.

> Here's the thing. It's a dumb stripper -- it can't fix malformed code in
> the mail before it strips it. If there's malformed code, then I suppose
> text could get lost. If anyone has a complete original from glenvdb, it
> would be interesting to look at the HTML.

Hi Dennis,
I didn't want to say it doesn't work generally, but it's stripping 
everything in the case of Glen. One possible reason could be an unusual 
MIME encoding. I already got somehow M$-formatted e-mails which didn't 
contain pure html code, but kind of attachment which was base64 encoded. 
This attachment contained lots of M$-generated stuff like .css files and 
so on, maybe even some Word .doc ActiveX plug ins (kind of source which 
is generated by Frontpage). Maybe a M$-Mailprogram (e.g. the hotmail 
Webmail) can display this stuff, but it's proprietary in any case. If 
Glen would send me an e-mail directly using the same system I could 
analyse the file and guess what's going wrong. Glen, don't take it 
personally, I think it's possible to find a solution even for M$ users. 
Some settings in your e-mail program and you'll go fine.

Regards,
Torsten