This "bug report" was generated from boost's recent (rocky) transition from YahooGroups to Mailman.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > One thing I noticed in the latest one though: Mailmain doesn't handle messages with HTML content correctly with regard > to adding the footer to the message. See the very abbreviated message below. > > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/> > Content-type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0" > > > ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > original message > > ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0 > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <HTML>original HTML message > > ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0-- > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost > > Since the footer was added outside the last boundary, it's ignored by mail readers that are MIME aware. The footer > should be injected just before the second occurrence of the boundary line in order to make it part of the base message > text. > > With the prevalence of multipart content, MailMan really ought to handle it better. BTW, one thing that bit us (hard) was the inability to set people to receive no email when mass-subscribing them. We probably made the wrong choice and should have simply avoided subscribing those people altogether, but had the option been there, making an appropriate choice would've been easier. -Dave ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
