A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text.
Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML. However, when he quotes one of my PGP-inline-signed posts, and doesn't delete the "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----" line, mutt acts as if the plain text part doesn't exist and gives me the "text/html is unsupported (use 'v'......)" message. If I edit the received email and add a space at the beginning of "-----BEGIN PGP....", or change one character of that line, mutt is then happy and displays the plain text part without problems. I am not au fait with the fine details of email formatting, so I'm not sure if this is a bug in mutt's handling of a correctly-formed message, or a consequence of the message being incorrectly formed (the poster is using M$ outhouse). The BTS doesn't seem to contain any bugs against mutt that would be relevant. I'm attaching a copy of an email that causes mutt to misbehave, and I would appreciate it if someone who knows more about email formatting than me could have a look at it, so that I can decide whether or not I should file a bug against mutt. I've munged the guy's email address but the rest is strictly as received. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:50:47 +0100
Subject: RE: [fprc] Re: EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I did used to notice on my balcony how the youngsters would peck at anything
at first, even just a slight uneven 'blob' in the flooring - basically,
anything that contrasted with the surface, til they figured some things
could be lifted and some not. They seemed to be 'testing' pretty much
anything for maybe weight, shape and consistency. But, with food available
and their father to demonstrate and copy, they soon got it right.
John
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From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 June 2004 20:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [fprc] Re: EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've seen more than a few little ones that are just learning to pick
up food for themselves, the first item they actually pick up and
swallow is a dropping. They do this with an apparent air of "ooh look,
I can pick things up and eat them, I'm a big grown-up pigeon aren't
I?", and don't seem to suffer any ill effects, though they don't make
a habit of it and soon figure out what seeds are for.
It makes me wonder if they actually need to do this to kick-start
their gut flora - I've heard that this is the case with horses.
- --
Pigeon
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class=311174319-29062004>I did used to notice on my balcony how the youngsters
would peck at anything at first, even just a slight uneven 'blob' in the
flooring - basically, anything that contrasted with the surface, til they
figured some things could be lifted and some not. They seemed to be 'testing'
pretty much anything for maybe weight, shape and consistency. But, with food
available and their father to demonstrate and copy, they soon got it
right.</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV>
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<DIV><EM><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080><SPAN
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Pigeon
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 29 June 2004 20:30<BR><B>To:</B>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [fprc] Re:
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MESSAGE-----<BR>Hash: SHA1<BR><BR><BR>I've seen more than a few little ones that
are just learning to pick<BR>up food for themselves, the first item they
actually pick up and<BR>swallow is a dropping. They do this with an apparent air
of "ooh look,<BR>I can pick things up and eat them, I'm a big grown-up pigeon
aren't<BR>I?", and don't seem to suffer any ill effects, though they don't
make<BR>a habit of it and soon figure out what seeds are for.<BR><BR>It makes me
wonder if they actually need to do this to kick-start<BR>their gut flora - I've
heard that this is the case with horses.<BR><BR>- --
<BR>Pigeon<BR><BR></TT>
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