Daily Digest

[greg_g]

For about 5 days now, I've been getting emails from forum@tractorbynet.com with the subject line "Daily Digest of .... ". They're completely devoid of text. Blank.

What gives?

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[beenthere]

?? I haven't been getting any, which is fine (especially if they are blank). ??

 

[Ibrahim]

Hrm.

Ok... sorry about that.

I'll get right on it.

-Ibrahim

 

[greg_g]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Hrm.Ok... sorry about that.I'll get right on it.-Ibrahim )</font>

Just got another one. In the past, they came in plaintext format. These new ones are blank HTML. I tried to upload a copy of the email, only to discover that your site refuses the MSG file extension.

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[greg_g]

I see you got it fixed. Thanks

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[JohnBarlow]

I've been getting the same "Daily digest of Build-It Yourself" instead of the old "Daily archive of Build-It Yourself", but the messages were not blank, indeed they had better formatting (layout) than the old "daily archive" format. The text is the same, but I appreciated the new look. Sadly (although, good for greg_g) they have gone back to the old format.

The old format (for me, using Mozilla email) has text immediately prior and following the "----" item separator line. The "digest" format had the "---" item separator on its own line with blank lines above and below. I have also had problems with HTML formatting in the items (such as font colour changes that never get closed, so highlighted text continues to the end of the archive).


Anybody got any thoughts on this ?

Thanks, John Barlow

 

[greg_g]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Anybody got any thoughts on this ? )</font>

Wish I could help John. Whereas I use do use Mozilla/Firefox for a browser, my email client is MS Outlook

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[Ibrahim]

I'll have to decide on which is better. It may be a setting issue with greg. I'll look at his options and then see if I can't get it working for everyone.

-Ibrahim

 

[JohnBarlow]

The email I get from tractorbynet has a lot of repeated text (content type) in the headers. I will attach the message (with headers) to this as a text file so you can see what I am receiving, one message as the "archive" (format looks bad in mozilla) and one message as the "digest" (which is more legible). This might help analyse what is going on.

 

[JohnBarlow]

whoops - can only attach one thing to a message, so here is the "digest" message, which looks good.

 

[JohnBarlow]

The "Content-Type:" header (redundantly long) is present in the "archive" format, and specifies text/html.

The "X-Mailer:" header is different between them, and I assume this is the tool used to format and post the message based on postings to the list.

Perhaps Greg_g has the email client configured to display HTML message formats only, and that is why the "digest" format (which came through without HTML markup) showd nothing - there was no HTML format to the message ?

Of note, my tractorbynet subscription configuration specifies that I want my emails "in plain text", but obviously the "archive" format is being sent to me with some HTML. That it is sent with some HTML explains why it displays poorly for me, if the message is interpreted as HTML then each line requires a line break or end of paragraph marker, without that the carriage returns in the message are treated as white space.

Soo, if the current "archive" format truely was emailed out in plain text I would be very happy ?

Ta, John.

 

[greg_g]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Perhaps Greg_g has the email client configured to display HTML message formats only, and that is why the "digest" format (which came through without HTML markup) showd nothing - there was no HTML format to the message ? )</font>

No John, you're describing a send option. All emails clients I've used process both HTML and plaintext without predjudice on the receive. I get about a 70/30 split of HTML/PTxt daily. Outlook doesn't care, they're deposited in the InBox in the format they were sent.

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