On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 17:48:37 -0400 (EDT) Michael Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks - commenting out those lines did the trick and will make my clients >happy. > >Developers- what was the reason for this behavior? I don't believe this >was an arbitrary decision, so what unwanted events is it designed to >prevent?
The development of the content-filtering module was triggered by the release of AOL 6.0, whose MUA would not allow users to turn off HTML formatting. The HTML content was pretty annoying on mailing lists that were plain-text by convention so I wrote MimeDel to reduce everything to plain text -- that meant removing various attachments and replacing multipart/alternative sections with just their text/plain versions. IOW, the undesirable behavior was pretty much the original functional spec for the content filter. Barry made MimeDel a lot more nicely configurable, robust, and RFC- compliant when he incorporated it into the mailman distribution, but the basic strategy for dealing with multipart/alternative remains. It shouldn't be difficult to provide for either keeping all alternative sections with certain types, or to provide an ordered list of types from which to pick the one alternative that will be kept. At the expense of a few more knobs, of course. -les >Michael > >Michael Dunlap Systems Programmer / Administrator >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Workstation Support, ITS >(203) 432-1256 Yale University > >On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Michael Dunlap wrote: >>> >>> I've been reading the archives and it looks as if the problem of having >>> content filtering on and passing multi-part emails (plain and html) >>> isn't really solvable. One email to the users list summarizes the >>> problem this way: >>> >>> >>>> There is a basic design decision in content filtering that makes this >>>> difficult. Namely, after filtering, only the first remaining sub-part >>>> from a multipart/alternative part is retained. >>>> ... _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
