Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
understand why the text part got discarded; if you have a copy of
the
message send it to me and I'll try to figure out what went wrong.
It turns out that Mailman preserves such messages. There were several
from you. I discovered that the problem is that you have Gnus set up
to send "multipart/related" messages when you have attachments. Since
the standards say to treat unknown multipart/* Content-Types as
multipart/mixed, I guess there's no harm in letting all multipart
types through.
I forget how to kick Mailman into passing a message after it's been
fixed (or Mailman's configuration is adjusted), and I'm really tired
-- I'll do it tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
However, even though xemacs-beta should accept these messages in the
future, you should fix your Gnus. The correct MIME type for the
messages you are sending is "multipart/mixed". "multipart/related"
is
a generic method for sending multipart messages where the parts only
have (full) meaning in combination, and should be processed together.
This includes things like signed messages (you can't process the
signature without both the signature and the content) and old
Macintosh files containing both a content fork and a resource fork.
It does not include things like program source or image attachments.
Besides getting filtered (having only the multipart/mixed,
multipart/alternative, and multipart/digest types allowed is the
standard setting for Mailman), you could also find yourself in a
situation where some part of your message is not readable by a
correspondent's mail program, and that program refuses to read any of
it.
Steve
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