And just to throw a bit more fuel on the fire, my reply to Mark bounced as "Reason: spam source blocked"
:-) Mark Sapiro wrote: > Martin Dennett wrote: > > >> When posting to a list, if I reply to a reply to a reply, I get a >> rejection from the server saying "The message's content type was not >> explicitly allowed" - but prior to this, the messages get accepted. Any >> ideas what may be causing this, and what the admin can do (no command >> line access) to prevent this from happening, please? >> > > > The reject is because after content filtering has been applied, there > is nothing left in your message. The list admin can adjust content > filtering or turn it off, but this is probably not a good solution. > > The problem is in the way your MUA is creating this message. It it most > likely, being posted as an HTML only message. I am only guessing, but > here's what I think is happening: > > The list is set to remove text/html parts. You post a text/plain > message to the list. Someone replies to this message and the reply is > multipart/alternative with text/plain and text/html alternatives and > the text/plain alternative reaches the list, or maybe the reply is > html only and it too is rejected by the list. However, in either case, > you are a direct addressee of the reply so you receive it in its > original form. > > Further, your MUA settings include things like "reply to messages in > the format received" and maybe "when sending 'rich text' send rich > text only". This causes your MUA to compose and send an html only > message which is rejected by the list. > > If you have the original reply and/or a saved copy of your reply to > this reply, examine the raw messages to determine the MIME > structure/content-types to see what's being sent and received. > > You may also wish to look at the list archive to see if the original > reply is there. > > The solution is to adjust your MUA to send plain text only and to not > reply to messages in the format in which they are sent. > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
