Hi Zach,
Thanks for your input. I made the recommended changes. The test I ran does indeed show the ascii text in the message source instead of a bunch of jammed together character strings that remind me of satellite telemetry.
On a side note - the news content editors don't have the keys to the server room where the box running Mailman resides. I've heard we'd need to be careful about tweaking global settings ... at the risk of wrongly formatted messages for all users. But I'm willing try a few tweaks external to the server (aka my copy of Thunderbird) to see if we can improve the readability problem.
On 10/16/2017 10:48 PM, Zach Metzinger wrote:
On 10/16/17 21:16, JoAnne K9JKM wrote:
All ANS bulletins are sent plain text. We can't control what end users are reading them with!
Hello JoAnne,
A slight clarification: they appear to be a base64-encoded MIME[1] payload. In the headers, we can see:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0
<...>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
Then, in the body, we see the base64-encoded message:
QU1TQVQgTkVXUyBTRVJWSUNFCkFOUy0yODgKClRoZSBBTVNBVCBOZXdzIFNlcnZpY2UgYnVsbGV0
aW5zIGFyZSBhIGZyZWUsIHdlZWtseSBuZXdzIGFuZCBpbmZvci0KbWF0aW9uIHNlcnZpY2Ugb2Yg
QU1TQVQgTm9ydGggQW1lcmljYSwgVGhlIFJhZGlvIEFtYXRldXIgU2F0ZWxsaXRlCkNvcnBvcmF0