["Philip S. Brown" <pbrown01@llcareer.com>] Email Problems

["Philip S. Brown" <pbrown01@llcareer.com>] Email Problems

[Ian Lance Taylor]

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Forwarding to overseers.  It seems like a more or less reasonable
suggestion, if not phrased with full delicacy.

Ian


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From: "Philip S. Brown" <pbrown01@llcareer.com>
To: <gcc@gnu.org>
Subject: Email Problems
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:18:30 -0500
Message-ID: <0C0D409495AB4B4F83DCFFAE4A3E55E501C3D9@llserv.llcareer.local>

Getting a message thru your server is something of a nightmare.  While I
understand (and agree with) the reasons for your actions, I think your
error messages are rather obtuse and could use some improvement.

How's about:

From:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sources.redhat.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<gcc@gcc.gnu.org>:
ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, a message part has an unacceptable MIME
Content-Type: text/html (#5.2.3)

--- Enclosed are the original headers of the message.

To:
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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sources.redhat.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<gcc@gcc.gnu.org>:
ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, a message part has an unacceptable MIME
Content-Type: text/html (#5.2.3)
If you are sending this from Outlook, make sure your format is set to
Plain Text.  Go to Format and make sure Plain Text is checked.

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