Pauline M. Marshall <[log in to unmask]> writes

> My list has been experiencing 'trucated' digests since I 'adopted' it at
> the end of Jan.  I have finally gotten some help for the folks effected,
> and hopefully have figured out WHY it happens, but now I am looking for a
> fix, or a workaround (short of setting NOMIME, as it is the MIME digests
> these people prefer).
>
> When a subscriber is on the digest, and MIME, if someone posting to the
> list, happens to put a line in their message like:
>
> ----------------
>
> To exactly the same length as the digest seperator, the digest is
> truncated after that line.  Is there any way to fix this, or is this a
> known bug(?) with the MIME digests and unfixable (short of setting nomime
> which they would rather not do.)?  The regular (nomime) digests are
> delivered fine.  My guess is that listserv is seeing that line, and
> thinking it is the end of the message, and getting confused.
>
> Can anyone help me here, or at least explain WHY this happens?

I've had some complaints as well from my list members but when I
tried testing on LISTSERV 1.8d(VM) and LISTSERV-Lite 1.8c(FreeBSD),
any message that I sent with 30 dashes at the beginning of a line had
an extra space inserted before it by the LISTSERV so that the line
would not conflict with the

   boundary="----------------------------"

clause that LISTSERV puts in the header of MIME digests.


Andrew.

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