[icon-discuss] Re: braille plus and e-mail
- From: "susan l. gerhart" <slger123@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: richkar1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:36:56 -0700
richard,
this is not a problem with your email but rather with the mailing list
software.
this happens to me on one mailing list where others also have the same problem.
The mailing list software has not been updated with filters to handle
messages with character encoding coming from Linux, the base for our PDA. The
only way i have found is to write the message on my Icon, mail to myself, log
on to a PC and copy the message to send to the mailing list. Or write directly
from the PC. yes, this requires multiple mail systems just for one deficient
mailing list.
You should complain to the mail list provider, but many mailing list systems
have been customized and their owners do not know how to add the necessary
filters. This is a big problem with the mailing list referenced above, causing
many garbled posts and annoyance.
Levelstar and APH might mention this in the documentation or respond so others
can find a recommendation by searching the freelists.org archive.
Please let me add that many questions can be answered bya query using like
"icon-discuss freelists email". Messages from Michael, jenny, and Pamela are
authoritative. Many members also have good answers, but then some are just as
confused as you. I don't know if there is any other archive of 1000s of useful
messages over the past year.
Hope this helps.
susan
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:30:24 -0500, Richard Fiorello wrote:
>Hello group;
>I am looking for some constructive ideas as to how I might fix my braille
>plus e-mail problem? I seem to be able to send to an individual but not to
>a list. If the list posts my messages all asci characters show up such as
>=20 for space etc. At this point most lists reject messages sent via the
>Braille plus. I have looked at the settings in the account section of my
>e-mail program and they don't seem to be a problem. If there are other
>settings to check I could use some suggestions. Messages to an individual
>seem to come through fine although one recipient did comment that there was
>a problem with my headers. I called level star and they really didn't have
>a concrete suggestion other than calling my isp. The obvious question might
>be when I call the isp where do we start the investigation?
>Any thoughts appreciated.
>I wonder at what point I just send the unit back for service?
>Richard
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