Ah, for the days of yore. Once upon a time, email was text, eh?
Wild guess: If Outlook changed your text-only default to HTML to match the
item to which you replied, and your HTML mail format is set up (as many are,
these days) to include a JPEG logo in the signature, you'd get this result.
It does look to me like it did include an HTML version, but looking at the raw message I don't see a jpeg anywhere.
I've pretty much given up on policing attachment types. I tried, years ago, but
list users kept coming up with new, different file types (or new, different MIME encodings for the same old file types) and it ended up disrupting
communications. I suspect any restriction on JPEGs these days is probably left
over from the simpler, more straightforward days of yore--like five or six years
ago.
Yes, I just forbid attachments and (AFAIK) it doesn't seem to be doing this. The listowner in this case is probably policing attachment types too. I'm going to contact him.
Thanks, Hal (and others off list).
-- Russ
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From: "Russell Hunt" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2017 12:57 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LSTOWN-L] blocked attachments
> This isn't actually a LISTSERV question, but it occurred to me that
> list owners might have encountered this and have a solution.
>
> Twice recently I've replied to postings on a list I subscribe to and
> had them rejected, with this error message.
>
> Your posting to the C18-L list has been rejected because it
> contains an attachment of type 'IMAGE/JPEG'. The C18-L list has been
> configured to reject such attachments.
>
> I've been inspecting the messages (or, anyway, the most recent one)
> and I can't find any trace of an attached jpeg. I suspect that it's
> something to do with my mail client, which is Outlook (not my choice),
> running off the Web. It has the deplorable habit of attaching
> winmail.dat files to my mail, or burying pdfs in such files, which are
> unopenable unless your correspondent is also running Outlook. It also
> tends to pick up characteristics of emails you're replying to -- so
> although I've set my system to send text only, when I reply it seems
> to assume I want to emulate whatever I'm replying to.
>
> However, the message I'm replying to can't very well have had an
> attached jpeg, or the list would have bounced it. Anybody else run
> into this? It strikes me as odd that I've not had any complaints about
> it from the lists I own. Or maybe it's happening only to me, and something I could fix.
>
> -- Russ
>
> Russ Hunt
> Professor Emeritus of English
> St. Thomas University
> http://www.stu.ca/~hunt
>
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