[XCSSA] failed emails

travis+ml-xcssa at subspacefield.org travis+ml-xcssa at subspacefield.org
Tue Feb 5 22:32:33 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:02:07PM -0600, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> I keep getting message from a mailing list for winmodems in Ubuntu. My
> mails are sent back to me. What is causing this?

It's caused because you're sending multipart MIME emails, and qmail
(the MLM) doesn't accept them.

This is almost always because your MUA (mail user agent,
e.g. evolution or thunderbird) is sending it as both HTML and plain
text (hence, the name "multipart/alternative").

Travis H.
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