Many thanks for the good and informational answer. I'll be upgrading to 2.1.9 soon so will check it out as well thanks Mark Sapiro wrote:
>martin moriarty wrote: > > > >>We're running mailman 2.1.5 successfully here. Weve a particular problem >>with viewing attachments from arhives in a moderated list. I can send >>an attachment as moderator ( PDF ) to the list and its distributed >>correctly after moderation. If however you go to view it from Archive >>you get the following >> >>-------------- next part -------------- >> >>Skipped content of type multipart/mixed >> >>instead of the attachment, which is a problem for anyone joining the list late >> >>Tried sending the same attachment as another user other than the moderator , >>again it goes for moderation , is received fine, >>but you receive the following: >> >>-------------- next part -------------- >>A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >>Name: advert-dsystems-phds.pdf >>Type: application/pdf >>Size: 21837 bytes >>Desc: not available >> >> >>It does in this case give a url which you can eventually open the attachment, >>a bit messy. >> >> > > >The second behavior is the expected behavior. I don't know why it would >be different depending on who posts except perhaps different MUAs are >used resulting in a different MIME structure for the message. > >I don't recall the details, but there have been scrubber issues in the >past that could result in the first behavior, but this really >shouldn't happen. > > > > >>Does anyone know if its possible to fix this behaviour so that you can view >>attachments from Archive. It did work for us last year. The >>attachments are being saved in the attachments subdirectory within mailman ok >> >> > > >Pipermail does not have the ability to archive Multipart messages at >all, not to mention the ability to convert a PDF attachment to HTML so >it could be viewed inline in the archive. > >Thus, all messages must be 'scrubbed' before archiving. Scrubbing >consists of saving all non-plain text attachments and plain text parts >with incompatible character sets separately in the 'attachments' >directory and replacing them with hyperlinks in the original message >and flattening the original into a single plain text message for the >archive. > >If there are problems with the current (2.1.9) scrubber, we would like >to get the details (a copy of the original problem message with all >headers and MIME structure intact) so we can fix the scrubber, but >messages to be archived by pipermail must be scrubbed to be >intelligible in the archive. The only way around this is to use a >different (external) archiver, but I don't think you are ever going to >be able to display PDF inline in an HTML page in a browser independent >way without converting it to HTML which defeats the entire purpose of >using PDF in the first place. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
