Barry, Thanks for your hard work. There are a bunch of us out here who truly value your efforts.
I have a thought about your "de-mime" feature. You indicate a method for converting text/html to text/plain via an external filter (lynx). In principle, this could be generalized to convert other mime types to text via appropriate external filters. For example, postscript and pdf files could be converted to text via ghostscript. There are also filters for converting MS-Word and rtf files to text. As someone who is becoming more and more paranoid about the use of binary attachments on my lists, this would be an excellent way to go. Do you have intentions along these lines? Or, should I continue to examine the growing body of external tools that do this? Many thanks, -- Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barry A. Warsaw Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Announce] RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 2 I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 2; see below for a list of changes since version 2.1 beta 1. There have been lots of bug fixes, Korean language support aded, and a couple of new features (a bit of a thaw in the feature freeze ;). Remember that discussions about version 2.1 are preferred on mailman-developers. I plan on moving mailman-developers over to the new version tomorrow, and if that works well, the other mailman-* mailing lists at python.org too. Enjoy, -Barry 2.1 beta 2 (05-May-2002) Lots of bug fixing, and the following new features and changes: - A "de-mime" content filter feature has been added. This oft-requested feature allows you to specify MIME types that Mailman should strip off of any messages before they're posted to the list. You can also optionally convert text/html to text/plain (by default, through lynx if it's available). - Changes to the way the RFC 2919 and 2369 headers (i.e. the List-*: headers) are added: o List-Id: is always added o List-Post:, List-Help:, List-Subscribe:, List-Unsubscribe:, and List-Archive: are only added to posting messages. o X-List-Administrivia: is only added to messages Mailman creates and sends out of its own accord. Also, if the site administrator allows it, list owners can suppress the addition of all the List-*: headers. List owners can also separately suppress the List-Post: header for announce-only lists. - A new framework for email commands has been added. This allows you to easily add, delete, or change the email commands that Mailman understands, on a per-site, per-list, or even per-user basis. - Users can now change their digest delivery type from MIME to plain text globally, for all lists they are subscribed to. - No language select pulldowns are shown if the list only supports one language. - More mylist-admin eradication. - Several performance improvements in the bounce qrunner, one of which is to make it run only once per minute instead of once per second. - Korean language support as been added. - Gatewaying from news -> mail uses its connections to the nntpd more efficiently. - In bin/add_members, -n/--non-digest-members-file command line switch is deprecated in favor of -r/--regular-members-file. - bin/sync_members grew a -g/--goodbye-msg switch. _______________________________________________ Mailman-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-announce _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
