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Stanley Hopcroft
Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU
Sat Jan 29 10:42:26 CET 2005
>
> nuffers at tsainc.com wrote:
> > Does anybody else have problems with the summary distribution of the
> > mailing list activity.
Yep. But the only problem is that a digest ('summary distribution') of
Nagios-users gets trashed if the ratio of HTML/quoted printable/Base64
etc is greater than about 10%.
> >
> > I get a lot of HTML code and other annoying symbols. Is it my client or
> > have I requested the wrong format when I subscribed?
> >
You have done nothing wrong; the digest preserves all the parts of a
multi-part letter. Moreover since the digest is simply a sequence of
letters - not a set of multi-parts corresponding to each letter - no
mailer could render it properly.
Unfortunately, digests suck if people post multi-part.
People post in multi-part because perhaps they are unaware that their
mailer is sending it, or because they don't see what it does to the
digests,
Here's an example
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:24:53 +0530
Subject: [Nagios-users] (no subject)
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_020C_01C35AC6.76B2A730
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
hi,
i am new to this list i am facing some problem in starting nagios i get
=
the following message
Checking service dependencies...
Error: Dependent service specified in service dependency for service =
'Website #2' on host 'nt1' is not defined anywhere!
Error: Service specified in service dependency for service 'Website #2'
=
on host 'nt1' is not defined anywhere
........
about 12 errors are generated.
kindly do help
ranjansimon
------=_NextPart_000_020C_01C35AC6.76B2A730
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> i am new to this list i am facing
=
some=20
problem in starting nagios i get the following message</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Checking service =
dependencies...</FONT></DIV><FONT=20
face=3DArial size=3D2>
<DIV>Error: Dependent service specified in service dependency for =
service=20
'Website #2' on host 'nt1' is not defined anywhere!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Error: Service specified in service dependency for service 'Website
=
#2' on=20
host 'nt1' is not defined anywhere</DIV>
<DIV>........</DIV>
<DIV>about 12 errors are generated.</DIV>
<DIV>kindly do help</DIV>
<DIV>ranjansimon</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
------=_NextPart_000_020C_01C35AC6.76B2A730--
Obviously this makes the digest difficult to use. No one who sends such
a letter should expect an answer.
What can you do ?
It's not your client or the format you requested. All you can do is,
1 Write a program to parse the digest and eject non plain text parts
2 Don't get the digest - then the multi-part will be either rendered or
hidden by your mailer
3 Politely suggest that people use plain text when they post. Some
people are genuinely unaware of this and respond positively to a private
post.
Yours sincerely.
--
Stanley Hopcroft
IP Australia
Ph: (02) 6283 3189 Fax: (02) 6281 1353
PO Box 200 Woden ACT 2606
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au
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