Mail client having trouble with email format.

[Erik Christiansen]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:57:29PM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> It is indeed a GUI. This is what od -c shows on my message from Alexander:
> 
> ( bits of it, including  " >> "  etc)
> 
> 0005320       G   r   e   g   o   r   y       P   i 303 261   e   r   o
> 0005340       <   g   r   e   g   p   i   n   e   r   o   @   g   m   a
> 0005360   i   l   .   c   o   m   >   :  \n  \n   >       O   n       8
> 0005400   /   7   /   0   6   ,       A   l   e   x   a   n   d   e   r
> 0005420       S   k   w   a   r       <   l   i   s   t   e   n   @   a
> 0005440   l   e   x   a   n   d   e   r   .   s   k   w   a   r   .   n
> 0005460   a   m   e   >       w   r   o   t   e   :  \n   >   >       >
> 0005500       b   .       H   o   w       c   a   n       I       s   c
> 0005520   h   e   d   u   l   e   /   a   u   t   o   m   a   t   e
> 0005540   a       s   c   r   i   p   t       t   h   a   t       n   e
> 0005560   e   d   s       r   o   o   t       p   r   i   v   l   e   d
> 0005600   g   e   s   ?  \n   >   >  \n   >   >       U   s   e       t
> 0005620   h   e       c   r   o   n   t   a   b       f   r   o   m
> 0005640   u   s   e   r       r   o   o   t   .       A   l   t   e   r
> 0005660   n   a   t   i   v   e   l   y   ,       m   o   d   i   f   y
> 0005700       t   h   e       /   e   t   c   /   f   s   t   a   b   ,
> 0005720  \n   >   >       s   o       t   h   a   t       i   t       i
> 
> So it looks like the \n is present before the >> , at least here.

Ooooh-Errrrr! Then is my mail client pinching newlines from specific
parts of Alexander's posts, and no others? This is a distinctly curious
puzzle. (For the morning though. It's a little late for serious
debugging. :-)

> Whether Sylpheed is clever enough to do this, I have no idea :) I notice
> in the headers the following:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Sender: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> Errors-To: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au id
> k785wrsG023283

The content-related ones are the same as I experience. Thanks for
demonstrating that.

> The technicalities of this discussion are way beyond me, but I'm hoping
> the output above might be helpful ;)

I'm not convinced of that, having been the recipient of some decidedly
non-obvious hints from you. :-) Maybe it's just difficult for me to
explain in text what I see on my screen.

> 
> Could it be the conversion my ISP is doing ? ( Just guessing)

I'll gnaw away at it tomorrow. Something has to give, in the face of
persistence. I hope.

Erik

Who'd like to be able to read Alexander's full posts, not just his nifty
sig-quotes.