E-mails with empty text

[A Joseph Ross]

Since my email client is configured to show attachments in-line, I get 
these normally and don't have to click on attachments to read the 
messages.  My advice to people who get seemingly blank emails is, look 
for an attachment and open it.  That's where the message is.


On 10/19/2016 8:35 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:10:43 -0400, Sean Smyth <ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu> said:
>
>> I've noticed that a few posters' e-mails come without text in the message.
>> Always happens for me with Don A and Sir Waters' posts. I'll see the
>> preview in my inbox, but nothing when I try to read it. I'm using
>> off-the-shelf gmail via apps and the website. Any advice? Garrett? I swear
>> I'm not this much of a Luddite.
> Google "DMARC controversy".
>
> Certain large email providers have set things up so that whenever any
> of their users send mail to a mailing-list or other forwarder -- other
> than the ones they themselves operate, of course -- other large email
> providers will generate a bounce rather than accepting it.  The result
> of this is that whenever any AOL or Yahoo! Mail user sends three
> messages to a mailing-list, all of the GMail users get automatically
> unsubscribed.
>
> There are two defenses against this.  Either
>
> 1) the mailing-list can mangle the sender's address, or
> 2) the mailing-list can encapsulate the problem messages.
>
> Either way the DMARC policy is not invoked and GMail doesn't send
> bounces.  Since all right-thinking people abhor option (1), I have
> configured option (2) instead.  This only happens for senders whose
> email domain publishes a DMARC policy which would otherwise generate
> bounces.
>
> If you read this list via the digest, this issue does not come into
> play, as the From: address of the digest is at a domain
> (bostonradio.org) that does not publish a problematic DMARC policy.
>
> -GAWollman
>
>

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