From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V3 #175 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Thursday, November 9 2000 Volume 03 : Number 175 In This Digest: ----------------- ADMIN: aol 6.0 and html mail ["Julian C. Dunn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:26:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: ADMIN: aol 6.0 and html mail Any of you folks who are using AOL and have upgraded to 6.0 or are thinking about upgrading, please read the following. Basically, if you send HTML mail to the list, it won't go through, and AOL 6.0 sends ONLY HTML e-mail. - - Julian [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com * WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd350 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] ["confucious say - it's stuffy inside a fortune cookie." - /usr/bin/fortune] - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:05:31 -0500 From: drop the holupki To: list-owners@smoe.org Subject: aol 6.0 and html mail hey everyone, it seems that the latest version of aol (6.0) does not currently have a setting to allow their users to send plan-text mail. as a result, you will probably see an increase in messages bounced to you for approval since smoe's majordomo is configured to bounce all html-formatted mail for all lists. thanks to sheila for getting in touch with aol's support about this (and mike connell for also pointing this out). aol says they are developing a fix for this but they haven't finished it yet and don't know when they will have it available. depending on the number of aol subscribers on your list, you may want to alert your list to this new development. incidentially, jeff and i decided that we're going to install demime on smoe. demime will strip non-text mime attachments out of all list-bound mail which will, hopefully, solve this problem for us. as you can imagine, it's a lot easier to beat this on our end since there are too many mailers to keep track of anymore. woj ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V3 #175 *******************************