[Coin-lpsolver] Re: Coin-lpsolver Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Francois Margot wrote:

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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:36:37 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Coin-lpsolver] Re: Coin-lpsolver Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3
>> To: coin-lpsolver at list.coin-or.org
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>> If your mail client supports it, read the digest in MIME format to see
>> attachments properly.  Set your preferences at
>> http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/coin-lpsolver.  Or use mail
>> filters to collect list messages instead of digests.
>> 
>
> And what about the Web interface of the COIN site? No way to get the complete 
> messages archived?

Good point, now that you mention it.  Yes, there are apparently issues 
with digesting and archiving mail in which the body is included in an 
attachment.  There may be a fix for this in an upcoming version of 
Mailman, but I don't know when/if we'll see that in the current Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux offering.  There are other archiving programs available 
that support Mailman, but I'm not in a position to try them out at this 
point.  Maybe in the future...

Meanwhile, I'll urge list posters to make sure that their mail clients are 
configured so that message bodies are in plain text (not HTML) and are not 
wrapped in attachments.

I'll also urge text-mode digest readers to alter their subject lines when 
they reply.  And I'll point out that replying to a digest rather than an 
individual message (whether original or in a MIME-format digest) can break 
threading in mail readers and in the archiver.

FWIW, I don't get the archive and I did see the complete versions of the 
messages in question.  Also, although the bodies seem to be lost, the 
actual patch file is intact in the archive.

>
> Francois

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