Dear Song Zhen. Thank you for the detailed instructions on how to ensure that my footer is appended to the main text rather than attached. I agree that in-line signatures are better than those attached (Microsoft style visiting cards) and probably I chose the "plain text" setting rather than "mime". In the Rietveld archive https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ where only plain text is preserved and attachments aren't, my footer is still there, which makes me think that it is already appended in-line, but I will check on the server next week.
Your suggestion of how to prevent attachments will also be followed up. I probably interpreted "publicnomultipart" to be "anyone can send messages", while I want to restrict sending to members to prevent spam. But the "nomultipart" seems to be the key to preventing attachments, so I will look at that too. Thank you again for your suggestions. I am not an expert with mail servers, and the SYMPA instructions seem rather complex. With kind regards, Alan. On 9 May 2015 at 13:16, azurebayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Alan, > Maybe the below information is useful for you to solve your problems: > 1. The message-footer.txt attachment. > Per default, your mailing list setting for a footer type is set to > 'append', which appends the footer as plain text. If you compose messages > to your list mainly in HTML or Rich-Text format, this might not be the > right setting for you. The message entails so-called MIME parts with > different format versions (plain-text and HTML in that case). Most email > clients display only the HTML version and therefore not the appended > plain-text footer. Changing the attachment type fixes this. > > Email format / Sympa setting > append mime > HTML no visible > footer visible footer + attachment > Rich-Text no visible > footer visible footer + attachment > Plain-Text visible > footer visible footer > > To fix this please follow these steps to set up the footer attachment type: > 1.Login to your Sympa account. > 2.Under Your Lists click Admin > Edit List Config > Sending/reception. > 3.In the right-hand pane, near the bottom, change the "Attachment type " > by clicking the pulldown-arrow and selecting mime. > 4.Click the Update button at the end of the page. > > 2. Attachment forbidden > Sending Scenarios > To change which send scenario is being used for your list, select the list > under “Your Lists,” then click “List Administration” in the “List > Operations” section, then “Edit List Configuration,” and finally > “Sending/Receiving Setup” — the send scenario choices are in the first > section, named “Who can send messages.” Available choices include: > ... > publicnomultipart > Anyone may send to the list. Messages with attachments are > simply rejected. > > Good luck! > Song Zhen > > > -- > > Song Zhen > > Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry > > University of Science and Technology Beijing > > At 2015-05-09 17:39:46, "Alan Hewat" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Rietveld list. > > Good to see so many people asking for the list to be continued. And even > an example of an interesting scientific question immediately answered by an > expert. Encouraging. > > So why do I forbid "sinful" attachments ? (No, it's not because I'm > getting old and snarky, though we all do eventually :-) Think of the > Rietveld list as a kind of relaxed "Twitter", except that you are not > limited to 140 characters. And what about Google's decision this month to > favour sites that can be used on a mobile phone ? Yes, even oldies use > mobile phones for email. SMS is another example of beauty in brevity. > > Then the Rietveld Archive is an excellent record of past discussions - > without the attachments. Messages that rely on attachments are then often > incomprehensible - look up that message on > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Frankly, if you need more > than that, put it on a webserver with a link to it. Such links are > preserved in the archive. > > If you see my own warning about "no attachments" as an attachment :-) > perhaps you should check how your email client is set up. Or tell me how I > can do it differently with SYMPA www.sympa.org I didn't design the mail > server nor the mail archive. Clearly, it is difficult to enforce a simple > "no attachments" rule, so what would it be like policing a "small > attachments" rule ? Even if you personally have lots of space for email, > our webserver (for which we don't pay) would still have to distribute ~1500 > copies of your "small attachment". > > In this particular case, a figure from an unpublished paper was published > and criticised out of context. Is that really fair? If it's from a > referee's copy we shouldn't even refer to it, let alone publish it. If it's > a pre-print, just publish a link to it. But there are already plenty of > examples in the published literature if you are looking for evidence of > regression. > > So where are the "Apologies"? There are none :-) "Excuse me" is what > people say when they elbow their way through a crowd. (I only do that when > I really need to). So if you really need to attach a document, go ahead. > After all, you can still read the list on the archive. > > Alan > ______________________________________________ > * Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE * > <[email protected]> +33.476.98.41.68 > http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat > ______________________________________________ > > > > -- ______________________________________________ * Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE * <[email protected]> +33.476.98.41.68 http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat ______________________________________________
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