[LAU] mail messages getting mangled?

[gnome at hawaii.rr.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: tim hall <tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk>
Date: Monday, December 3, 2007 4:07 am
Subject: Re: [LAU] mail messages getting mangled?
To: linux-audio-user at linuxaudio.org
Cc: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org

> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > Ken Restivo wrote:
> > 
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> Ihavenoticedthatmanymessagesonthislistaregettingmangledlikethiswith
> >> nolinefeedsornewlines.Itmakesitreallyhardtoread.Whosemailerisodoing
> >> this,orisitthelistserver,andwhy?Whatisgoingon?
> > 
> > Well I notice tha tim hall's email was sent with a Content-
> Transfer-Encoding
> > of base64. I suspect that may be the cause of tim's post getting 
> mangled.
> Was it indeed? Thanks, of course there is no evidence of a problem 
> on my 
> own machine.
> 
> Does anyone know how to correct this in Thunderbird/FrostPigeon? Do 
> I 
> need to edit some key:value pair in about:config?

I've never had that problem with Thunderbird at all.
Content-Transfer-Encoding of base64 shouldn't cause anything like the
example text above.

Try setting Thunderbird to use just plain text, perhaps some mailserver
along the way is mangling things?

David
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