thier was a fix in Mimedel.py about 1 week ago with multipart/alternative that soulds pretty close to this bug, How old is the CVS update you are using?
MJM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuq Von Rospach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: [Mailman-Developers] more 2.1b3++ MIME funnies. > > Okay, is this me, or mailman? > > I have content filtering on. My blacklist is empty. my whitelist is: > > multipart/alternative > text/plain > text/html > > I have convert text/html to plain text on. > > My lynx setup is: > > > # Command that is used to convert text/html parts into plain text. > > This > > # should output results to standard output. %(filename)s will contain > > the > > # name of the temporary file that the program should operate on. > > HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND = '/usr/local/bin/lynx -dump %(filename)s' > > > > plaidworks.com 119# lynx -version > > Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001) > > Built on darwin6.0 Aug 28 2002 22:10:30 > > > > Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other > > contributors. > > Distributed under the GNU General Public License. > > See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information. > > I'm finding that if someone sends a M/A message with a plain and an > html part, it's getting processed, and I'm getting a message going out > with two t/p parts, one the original, and one empty. Since the empty > one is second, it gets displayed. > > So something is whacked out. I'm not sure what. > > What are people doing for their black/whitelists? am I just building > this thing sideways? > > What I'd like to be able to do (but can't) is allow M/A, t/plain and > t/html, and use the lynx to defang HTML going into the text (but not > MIME) digests. That seems the most reasonable set of compromises to > allow styled mail. Unfortunately, mailman can't be set up that way... > > so my backup plan was to allow text/plain, convert html to text if the > text part didn't exist, and try to add features later. But I don't seem > to be quite right yet. For what I'm trying, I *think* I should be > whitelisting M/A and Text/Plain, but not text/HTMl. that screws people > who only send text/html without a plain part, but they probably > shouldn't do that anyway... > > well, off to tweak the settings again.... > > > > > > -- > Chuq Von Rospach, Architech > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ > > The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
