[OFB Cafe] Photographers?

[Chris Olson]

From: Timothy Butler 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:11 AM
To: An Open Discussion Forum on Just About Everything,Especially for Techies. 
Subject: Re: [OFB Cafe] Photographers?



> What kind of attachment format is Live Mail using? Perhaps Mailman  
> doesn't understand it. It flattens certain types of encodings in an  
> attempt to simplify them.

MIME.  You probably got some other option set in Mailman to strip attachments over a certain size even on moderator approved posts.  Mailman is a beastie that grew so complicated in its later iterations that I wouldn't want to venture a guess.  All I know is that I've never ran into any email client used by anybody, anywhere, any time that has ever had a problem understanding MIME attachments.

If you'd enable HTML posting I could send a photo email with 8 pictures of that deer in thumbnail form,  and the message wouldn't be over 25 KB.  When I use the photo email option it doesn't even attach or send the pictures - Live Mail merely uploads them to my Windows Live Server and the email program links to them.

Of course, HTML email would cause a fuse to blow and all the lights would go out in the Café, the sun would be eclipsed, the solar system would be sucked up by a Black Hole, and life as we know it would end.
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Chris