Note for any Security Focus mailing list Readers
I attempted to reply to a thread on Bugtraq the other day from a Gmail account. When I hit reply, the new message was created with Rich Text Formatting enabled. I typed out my email and sent it off. It was bounced back to me with the message:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at lists2.securityfocus.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.< bugtraq@lists2.securityfocus.com>:
ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages of MIME Content-Type 'multipart/alternative' (#5.2.3)
Since the message was sent 'reply-to-all', it was received by some people and quoted. I decided to attempt to reply again, so once again I selected 'reply-to-all', only this time I left Rich Text formatting and went to Plain Text. The message was sent without issue, so if you're a reader of any Security Focus mailing lists, ensure that you are in plain text mode if you are sending from a Gmail account.