I have found another problem with Sylpheed that I do not think has been mentioned before:
Sometimes, when I receive mail-list digests, some of the message will display, but not all of it. I had tried Sylpheed long ago and had come across this problem and written to the maintainer, then I forgot about it until I tried it again when people on the list started recommending it. This time, I managed to track down the cause, though not a solution (although I know that a solution exists, since Netscape does not have the problem). The digest in question sends the individual postings as attatchments in a multi-part mime posting. In the headers is a line that says what the dividing line between postings is. This digest uses a line of dashes (28 dashes in the header line, to be precise). Any time that someone divides a section of their posting by using a line of dashes, as I often do myself, Sylpheed will take that as the end of the posting and look for the next sections headers. When it does not find the headers it gives up and decides that it must be at the end of the entire e-mail. I noticed the problem quickly, this time, because the first poster used a line of dashes in his posting and there were about 20 posts in the digest. Only the first one shows up. Everything is present in the posting, however. If I edit the line of dashes in the first posting to start with any other character then the rest of the message, with all of the attatchments, shows up in Sylpheed. Obviously, using a more complex, and less likely to be used by accident, section divider would mostly eliminate this problem from the standpoint of a particular digest, but the mailer should be able to prevent the problem. I do not know how to prevent this, but I know that it can be done, since Netscape shows all of the postings from all of my digests. This is why I am still using Netscape. Bloated though it may be, it does the job correctly. Does anyone know of any way to prevent this problem in Sylpheed? -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will live to be 150 years old, Please visit "The Meadery" at: unless your wife shoots you." http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
