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Subject: [Leica] OT - to Brian Reid - attached files
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:27:56 -0600
References: <DD0C53CC68C345FBAB811C64BA4EC10A@pc68b018a9ba37>, <AB5C5308E06BA5F4F6AF2922@visible-trout.waverley.reid.org>

Actually, it's even dumber than that.  

I actually have Pegasus locked into plain-text; I've never seen the 
point to html email.  But I use a bunch of different email addresses 
aliased into my main mailbox. I'm on about two dozen high-volume 
news/journo lists, so doing it this way makes filtering incoming mail 
lists a LOT easier... 

But there's this downside.  If I send to a list and forget to make 
sure the outgoing headers are using the right alias, sometimes the 
message will get bounced and I'll have to resend (usually just a 
quick "forward" and a little editing). That's what happened here, and 
that added text is an artifact from the process - some headers got 
duped, I missed cleaning them out, and pegasus mail thinks it's 
attaching the first version to the second.  There's not an actual 
attachment.  

Happens about once a year on some list or other.

Sorry for the panic.  No reason for alarm.


Quoth the Brian Reid :

> They weren't attachments. They were enclosures put there by Clayton
> McKee's Pegasus because he forgot to send plain-text. Outlook is too
> stupid to tell the difference. Kaspersky recognizes them for what
> they are and correctly ignores them.
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In reply to: Message from bernard.degaute at skynet.be (Bernard Degaute) ([Leica] OT - to Brian Reid - attached files)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] OT - to Brian Reid - attached files)