[DeTomaso] List access test: @list.realbig.com vs @realbig.com sending plain + HTML

[Dave Londry]

  This was Mark McWhinney's take on it Richard.
 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks, Dave.

What is happening is that your e-mail is being evaluated as it is passed
from server to server as it works its way from your PC to the
realbig.com server.  If a server decides that your message is spam, it
just throws the email away.  E-mails that have attachments or that use
non-plain text formats are more likely to be deemed as spam.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com  [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
On Behalf Of Dave Londry
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:27 PM
To: DeTomaso Forum
Subject: [DeTomaso] If you have trouble getting stiff to post in the
forum.

Our big guy - Mark M., just got me straightened out.

I was trying to post html messages and only 1/4 of them were going
through.
He told me to use text so -
   In my email client I put realbig.com as a "text only" domain
    and in my address book I set all the realbig addresses to prefer
text.

This will make 4 in a row that work.

thanks Mark
dave

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On 9/17/2010 9:47 AM, Richard Barkley wrote:
>    Dave,
> One possible explanation for this is that your email program _*sends out
> both plain text and HTML*_ in the same message. This is a test of that,
> it contains plain text followed by html. :-) . Also, I discovered that
> Thunderbird has a preference one can set for each of your mail accounts
> that has to be checked to send HTML (it's under Composition&  Addressing
> for the settings of the individual accounts). With it unchecked, only
> plain text goes out and forwarded HTML mail is converted to text only.
> If you see it from the list, you'll know that's why it works for you.
> After sending this message I'm unchecking the box.
> Richard
>
> On 9/17/10 6:43 AM, Dave McManus wrote:
>> I don't have any problem with HTML, ever.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Barkley [mailto:rlbpantera at earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:05 PM
>> To: Detomaso List Text only; Detomaso List Text only
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] List access test: @list.realbig.com vs
>> @realbig.com>
>>
>>    /Dave,
>>
>> *Bingo*. Thanks for the tip. I went back and checked my posts this year.
>>
>> Most were text only but some had HTML. Only the text only ones got
>>
>> through. They were all addressed to @realbig.com. So I looked around on
>>
>> the list info page and the "membership reminder" email to see if missed
>>
>> something about HTML only. If there is, I couldn't find it. Maybe it
>>
>> just applies to the old @realbig.com address. Anyway, seems like it
>>
>> should be fixed, at least by sending out a rejection email with the
>>
>> reason. /
>>
>> As a test, I'm sending out copies of this to the list to both addresses
>>
>> with HTML and text only to see what happens. Sorry for the spam.
>>
>> This is the text only version
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> On 9/16/10 10:49 AM, Dave Londry wrote:
>>
>>>   I had big trouble until I forced all emails to the list to be text-only.
>>> As soon as my email client sent html messages to the list they were
>>> tossed out.
>>> dave
>> -- 
>>
>> -----
>>
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