Remember that HTML is structured, so if we directly append the footer after the HTML body, we get:
<html> <body> My Message Body </body> </html>
-- Mailman Footer Here
With HTML, you would have to parse the HTML and understand where the logical end is to the content, and then place the HTML-formatted footer "at the bottom" of that context.
Problem is, each HTML-enabled MUA will display that somewhat differently. So, your header may appear fine for some subset of the users, but not for all the others. Moreover, the HTML generation engine originally used or your HTML recognition engine, might create inappropriately formatted content, so that the result after modification is completely unreadable to anyone.
If you have any suggestions as to how Mailman can safely append footers to HTML email, I'd love to hear any ideas! This is obviously a problem that's been solved before,
Are you sure? Do you have proof?
but to go whole-hog and parse all the HTML in every message to try and stick the footer in the right place seems to be a little heavy-weight to me.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This is a much, much tougher problem to solve than it looks like. Indeed, I believe that it is impossible to solve this problem.
This is why there is no "HTML footer" option.
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