[OT] Re: igb watchdog timeouts

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> On a good day, my MUA sends "Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed" and should contain line breaks following the 80-character-per-line Usenet conventions, which modern MUAs might well reassemble based upon the user's window size. If it is being re-interpreted after transmission by MTAs, mailing-list MIME filters, or similar, well, that lies beyond my control.
> 
> Strangely, my MUA is sending format=flowed, etc., but mails received
> from you don't have it.  So when I reply to you and Cc me, then there
> are enough newlines in the now-doubly-quoted original in the Cc.

You're right.  After checking, it seems like Mail.app stopped emitting format=flowed around 10.6.3, and $REALJOB requirements mean I'm stuck using it as I need to deal with localized text from many languages frequently. [1]

> format=flowed apparently even fixes up the quotes, so there are enough
> quotes too.  But I don't like this.  Letting the MUA change the format
> will mangle source code, diffs and some types of quotes.


Well, source code, diffs, and such could be attached as MIME enclosures, which will insulate them from quote-based reformatting.  Unfortunately, unless one is careful with the content-types used, the FreeBSD mailing list software might decide to strip them....

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

[1]: Mozilla's Thunderbird does fine for the Latin-1 families & UTF-8 encodings, but it doesn't handle UTF-16 text or attachments (ja-JP / ISO-2022-JP or zh-CN & zh-TW in Big5 or GBK) correctly.