Hi again, Michael Dunlap wrote:
> Hello, > > 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. >> >>What this means in practice is if you want to allow both text/plain >>parts and text/html parts, the only way to get html to the list is to >>insure that the MUA (e-mail client) that creates the post creates an >>html only message, not a multipart/alternative message with both >>text/plain and text/html sub-parts. >> >>If you want Mailman content filtering to pass the html part from a >>multipart/alternative post, the only way to do this is to disallow >>text/plain and require everyone to post html, or to turn off content >>filtering and allow everything. > > > My question is two parts. One, is there a work-around available, and > two is this a "feature" which the developers intend to fix? > I've just checked in my patch to fix this. It introduces a new attribute 'collapse_alternatives' in the maillist object. You will need to run 'bin/update -f' after upgrading your installation to the latest CVS. Cheers, -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/ _______________________________________________ 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
