[Mimedefang] Problems with append_text_boilerplate

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> Got an odd one here...

> If I use append_text_boilerplate, it seems to work, but on messages which
> are 100% plain text with no attachments, it adds an extra header - eg:

>   Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1086193620-5732-0"
>   MIME-Version: 1.0

That's right, because MIME::tools always writes out MIME messages.

> Why is it turning a pure plain-text email into one with attachments? Some
> mail clieents are breaking on this and basically discarding the entire
> message because they never gind the boundary in the body of the message.

Well, that's weird.  I will look into it; it should generate a valid
MIME message.  It may be a bug.

Regards,

David.