Re: [Exim] [Newbie] local delivery not working

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [Newbie] local delivery not working
At 11:01 am +0100 2004/04/01, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:26:49AM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:52, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>> > Shouldn't the list software delete all attachments, including the
>> > whole body of the email quoted below, given the presence of the
>> > following header:
>>
>> Actually the MLM deals with mutipart types, and mails where the single
>> part is other than text/plain, but I've not come across a single part
>> mail with a content-disposition before.
>
>It wasn't single part. I normally don't sign mail to this list but
>forgot for that message. Mutt defaults to sending signed mail as a
>series of attachments rather than the older inline method. The final
>state of the message that arrived at the list was down to the MLM's
>stripping algorithm. The original message was multipart, with
>content-type multipart/mixed.
>


this is strange. Do you mean that the MLM garbled the message headers?
This was what I got:

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: attachment
In-Reply-To: <6B0D8968-832D-11D8-95AC-000A95D9A83A@???>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
From: Bruce Richardson <itsbruce@???>
content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
content-type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii

Giuliano