Message format *again*
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Sat Sep 27 09:56:11 PDT 2003
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
[ ... ]
> I don't see anything in the standards that defines this format, so I
> suppose the answer should be "yes". On a more practical basis, I
> don't know of any UNIX-based MUA which treats this correctly, and none
> of the messages I looked at it had this attribute. In addition, I
> can't see how "format=flowed" can distinguish between computer output
> (which should be quoted unchanged, possibly with very long lines) and
> text, which RFC 2822 recommends to be 78 characters or less. It also
> makes it almost impossible to quote.
Netscape/Mozilla is the most common MUA which uses format=flowed. Mozilla
certainly meets the "UNIX-based MUA" requirement, as it is available as a
FreeBSD port. This message should be an example of that MIME content-type, and
the raw ASCII representation should be fine for 80-column viewing.
Quoting email written in format=flowed should also be okay, although not
perfect, since Mozilla sometimes has a habit of prepending a space before a
quoted line inconsistently, resulting in output like:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:46:20 -0400
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>
To: John DeStefano <deesto at yahoo.com>
CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-id: <3EFC66CC.7030309 at mac.com>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii
John DeStefano wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> There's no way to avoid the port number in the URL, then. Consider
>> switching to a provider that lets you host local services...
>
> Does that then nullify your previous recommendations?
Nope. It just means that you can only get one of the two things you asked for.
> Can you recommend any such providers?
Of dynamic DNS? Yes: www.dyndns.org.
> By hosting "local services", do you mean DNS?
No, I meant being able to run Apache on port 80. You said you didn't want to
see IP or port number; the former can be solved by dynamic DNS, the latter can't
be solved if your ISP blocks port 80.
[ ... ]
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Mozilla tries to special-case the reformatting of quoted text to avoid breaking
quotation levels, but it displays "> " and " > " the same-- as a single colored
vertical bar so it's not possible for a user to notice the issue during composition.
For a detailed review of various test cases, please consult:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199776
--
-Chuck
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