Newman, Linda (newmanld) wrote: >Mark -- I really appreciate your answers to my questions. > >I now have the following 'pass types' allowed: > multipart/mixed > multipart/alternative > text/plain > text/html > message/rfc822
This is good. >This appears to handle plain text messages, and forwarded plain text >messages, while still dis-allowing attachments that are word files or pdf >files, executables, etc. It also continues to translate html messages into >plain text, but if I understand your answer below, this is because the first >part of a multipart/alternative message is usually plain text, and so that's >what mailman accepts. Right. It isn't translating HTML to plain text. It is selecting the text/plain part over the text/html part from a multipart alternative message. BTW, i left out a phrase in >Further, note that if the message contains a multipart/alternative part >with both a text/plain alternative and a text/html alternative, only >the first alternative which is always supposed to be the text/plain >part. It should have said "only the first alternative ... is retained for the list", but you seem to have understood it anyway. >So, it appears that if I want html formatted messages >to also be on this list, while of course also still allowing plain text, I'd >have to either > a) find an MUA that doesn't send html as multipart, but just as html >(suggestions?) > b) not do any filtering of attachments. > >Let me know if I have mis-understood. You appear to understand perfectly. Regarding a), Netscape/Mozilla for example allows you to choose whether to send HTML vs multipart/alternative in various ways - globally, by address book entry, by domain, by asking. As far as I know, M$ lookout (er.. outlook) express allows you to specify plain text in address books, but if you want to send HTML, it always sends multipart/alternative. I think outlook (not express) may send HTML only, but I can't tell you how to set it up. Normally I'm only interested in setting things to not send any HTML. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
