Everyone,
I contacted FreeLists support and they gave me some list setting changes
that should fix the issue with Digests and weird characters.
What's happening is that list digests follow Internet standard RFC1153.
Digests are a text base collections of email messages. So what's happening
is that various mail fonts are being incorrectly mapped to standard ASCII
characters. The setting change I just did should help with email font
remapping so let me know if it helped.
Regarding the question about receiving attachments with Digest messages.
Digests are just plain text and there is no provision for email attachments
in the RFC1153 standard. Their recommendation is to use Digest2. With that
you get both the digest and email messages. Read the digest and delete
messages you don't want. Alternatively you can subscribe to the list's
Atom/RSS feed and get your messages with attachments from there.
And I'll reiterate previously posted info, the message archive is not being
indexed at this time so search is currently disabled. What FreeLists found
is that the system overhead for list indexing was far greater than the
number of people that use the feature per day so they shut it down. I'll be
honest and say that I don't blame them because if it was my system I'd be
watching resource utilization and thinking the same thing.
I've been thinking it's not out of the possibility to have searching or
attachment archive hosted on the CPHA site. The CPHA site's database has
full text searching and we have disk space .
What's in short supply right now is time to do it. In case someone hasn't
heard the CPHA has a convention coming in September so the Executive is busy
gearing up for the convention - myself included. If we can patiently hold
out until the fall I'll look at how to host photos and list archive on the
site when life returns to something approaching normal. J
And finally, I know some of you aren't entirely happy with FreeLists website
but I have to say from an administrator's perspective I'm very happy with
them. In the 20 years of being with Yahoo I never had a support question
answered in a timely fashion or one with a level of technical detail that
was satisfying. These guys OTOH reply within 24 hours and at a technical
level that tells me they want me here. Some of you on the list have
experienced their direct support so you know what I mean. So, for now, I'd
like to give the platform some time and we'll work towards dealing with the
short comings in the fall.
Thanks and have a great evening.
Jeff Pinchbeck
CPHA Vice Chairman
