Re: Dodging the mailman was Re: nightly backup: objects not saved error

Yup, the mailman did catch my reply post to your HTML email and it cut
the size from 13k to 5k.

I did talk with some people on another list about the Outlook problem
and it seems there is no cure for Outlook 97.


Bale, Dan wrote:

>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--
>[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>I have a feeling David may be tweaking the settings here and there.
>Then again, maybe not, since I see your message has the "Picked" header.
>
>I think another possible answer is that any of my original posts to the
>lists will leave my email server as plain text, as I have specified for
>the address book entry.  But, apparently, with my version of Outlook
>(97), if I reply to a post that is non-text, I am powerless to change it
>to text-only.  Although, that seems a little strange, since now all any
>of us are getting are strictly text-only messages.  Hmmm.
>
>Another change I think David must have enacted since yesterday.  It used
>to be that any email sent from the list that the poster used a name like
>"midrange list" in the address book entry for the email address, my
>inbox assistant would be unable to filter that into my midrange-list
>folder; it had to be a direct match on midrange-l@midrange.com for it to
>work.  I had gone so far as to download the Outlook Rules Wizard from
>Microsoft to see if it offered more flexibilty; no luck.  Finally, I
>emailed David privately to ask whether he could have Mailman always
>force the To: to be the actual email address for the list (and strip out
>the "midrange list" or the hundred or so other name varieties that have
>clogged my inbox).  He initially said no, but now I wonder if he found a
>golden switch.  David?
>
>Dan Bale
>IT - AS/400
>Handleman Company
>248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>D.Bale@Handleman.com
>

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