On May 21, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Mark Sapiro writes:
There is nothing left of his message after content filtering.
Which at a guess means he was posting in HTML only, and your list is
set to filter HTML. If that is the case, it is strongly recommended
that you teach your member to set his mail client to post in plain
text (with or without HTML).
Depending on what is meant by "nothing", I've seen something like this
happen another way. Some clients will create a multipart/alternative
message with a text/plain alternate and a text/html alternate. But
these clients will just put a note in the text/plain part that says
roughly, "read the HTML part".
So with normal stripping of the text/html alternative all that comes
through is a text/plain message that says "read the other part". This
naturally confuses list members, although I consider mailman's
behavior absolutely correct. The originating client is lying when it
claims that it's produced a multipart/alternative message.
And naturally I concur with what I've snipped of your message,
encouraging people to send only text/plain email.
Anyway, the OP should have the user cc the list administrator with
their next posting attempt. That way, you can examine the structure
of the message that got submitted.
-j
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Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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