Yummy Ideas

[Paul Howarth]

Malcolm Candlish wrote:
>  Thank you Paul Howarth and Kam Leo I used the base usl http:
>  //www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub
>  /fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>  on all files in my /etc/yum.repos.d and get the following re
>  sult:-
>  
>  [root@malcolm malcolm]# yum install yumex
>  Setting up Install Process
>  Setting up repositories
>  updates
>  [1/4]
>  Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
>  Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates 
What's in your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo file?

>  I received a letter from Leon & Tim complaining that my mail
>  could not be read. This my be due to my using a bigfoot web
>  account while my FC5 is being set up. This should be in pla
>  in text. I hope that this is readable. 
It's perfectly readable, though a quoted-printable encoding would 
probably have been better than base64.

Paul.

[Todd Zullinger]

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"Malcolm Candlish"  wrote:
>  I received a letter from Leon & Tim complaining that my mail
> could
>  not be read. This my be due to my using a bigfoot web account while
>  my FC5 is being set up. This should be in pla in text. I hope that
>  this is readable. 
Actually, it was HTML.  That's also perfectly readable for many folks
(w3m dumps it to text just fine for me), but the list charter clearly
asks that posters send in plain text only.  Bigfoot might not make
that as easy or as obvious to setup as you'd like.  Best of luck
getting FC5 setup so you can enjoy that and have your choice of a good
mail client. :)

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[Tony Nelson]

At 12:37 PM -0400 5/2/06, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> "Malcolm Candlish"  wrote:
> > I received a letter from Leon & Tim complaining that my mail could
> > not be read. This my be due to my using a bigfoot web account while
> > my FC5 is being set up. This should be in pla in text. I hope that
> > this is readable.
>
> Actually, it was HTML. ... 
 ...

Are you sure?  I got a base64 blob for the message you replied to:

> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="===============0537864654=="
> Sender: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> Errors-To: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>
> --===============0537864654==
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
____________________________________________________________________
TonyN.:'                       <mailto:[e-mail]>
      '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

[Todd Zullinger]

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Tony Nelson wrote:
>  At 12:37 PM -0400 5/2/06, Todd Zullinger wrote: 
[...]
> >Actually, it was HTML. ...
>   ...
>  
>  Are you sure? 
Yes. :)

>  I got a base64 blob for the message you replied to:
>  
> >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0537864654=="
> >Sender: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> >Errors-To: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
> >
> >--===============0537864654==
> >Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 
The content-type is text/html.  The content-transfer-encoding is
base64.  Your mail client ought to know how to decode the base64 and
display the text/html part, or at least give you the ability to save
or view the html.  In my case, I have mutt use w3m to dump the html to
text and display that for any message that doesn't have a text/plain
part.

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Todd        OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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[Kam Leo]

On 5/2/06, "Malcolm Candlish" <Candlish(a)bigfoot.com&gt; wrote:
>   Thank you Paul Howarth and Kam Leo I used the base usl http:
>  //www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub
>  /fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>  on all files in my /etc/yum.repos.d and get the following re
>  sult:-
>
>  [root@malcolm malcolm]# yum install yumex
>  Setting up Install Process
>  Setting up repositories
>  updates
>   [1/4]
>  Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
>  Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
>
>  What do you think is wrong please!
>
>  I received a letter from Leon & Tim complaining that my mail
>   could not be read. This my be due to my using a bigfoot web
>   account while my FC5 is being set up. This should be in pla
>  in text. I hope that this is readable.
>
>  With thanks,
>  Malcolm Candlish
>  
Show us the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo.

[Tim]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:07 -0400, "Malcolm Candlish" wrote:
>  
>  I received a letter from Leon & Tim complaining that my mail
>  could not be read. This my be due to my using a bigfoot web
>  account while my FC5 is being set up. This should be in pla
>  in text. I hope that this is readable.  
Actually, I could read it; I was just outlining to someone else where
their problem may lay.

I can read this one, too.  It's also base64 encoded, which *shouldn't*
be a problem for anyone with a mail client made over the last 7 years or
so.  However, it's also HTML, which may be a problem for some people,
and is definitely not a good idea for mailing lists.

-- 
(Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.)

Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.