[aklug] Re: Fw: Introducing the Karmic Koala, our mascot for Ubuntu 9.10

I originally tried to forward an email to the list. As you know that didn't work. I did the same on the Ubuntu mailing list. Worked! Not sure what that says about the aklug list but I thought I would pass the info along.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Tibor" <tibor@tibor.org>
To: aklug@aklug.org
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 1:59:04 AM GMT -09:00 Alaska
Subject: [aklug] Re: Fw: Introducing the Karmic Koala, our mascot for Ubuntu 9.10

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

> [Sigh...went to Damien instead of the list. Sorry Damien!]
>
> And here we have, again, highlighted the same huge bug in Ecartis that
> is responsible for the =20 and =3D in e-mails. The mail below was sent
> base64 encoded, which is fine (at least in my e-mail program) but for
> whatever reason Ecartis strips the Content-type header and blindly put
> in text/plain, without properly decoding the content to text/plain.
> Any chance Ecartis could be fixed? Or move to another mail host?

Some of what you're seeing is some rather strict configuration parameters
I selected when we migrated the aklug list from Jim and Rox Bennett's mail
server about 10 years ago. A lot of that was based on my (admittedly
naive) assumptions of things like, most people would probably be like me
where they would be running Linux in the server space and could easily put
binary items up on a web server they controlled. Naturally this
assumption led me to configure the list to strip binary attachments.
Obviously in hindsight some of those assumptions were a little silly--I
think most of us run Linux more in the workstation space, and relatively
few of us actually admin Linux servers.

When I left UAA in 2003, Mike Robinson <afmcr@uaa.alaska.edu> took over
Ecartis maintenance--it might be worth someone like Mike Barsalou talking
to him and seeing how he would feel about relaxing some of the
configuration settings, or even if he might be willing to migrate to
something else like Mailman.

Mike
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