[Distutils] This list will soon be migrating to Mailman 3

I think the mm footer should be preceded by a signature delimiter ('-- '). Is there any reason not to? If there's not an HTML footer option yet, it's probably because you'd need to change the tag structure and/or CSS. <footer>message footer </footer> </html> <div><p>footer Copying and pasting from HTML into Gmail generally causes the message to be imperceptibly upgraded to text/html. Is there a way to tell whether a draft message is text/plain or multipart text/html or? Is there a way to keep messages as plaintext (text/plain) only; as people on these lists seem to prefer? - Desktop: Ctrl-Shift-V pastes as text/plain (Linux, ) - Android: Copy/paste to a memo app, back (strips the formatting), open memo, Copy (Omni Notes, ) - iOS: In addition to indicating that the entire message has transmitted and been replied to in full, redundant and obnoxious email footers are often deleted when replying inline; the '-- ' helps indicate what can/should (?) be trimmed from the reply chain in order to keep it under 40KB. Is 40KB still the mm message size limit? On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 04/30/2018 11:37 AM, Wes Turner wrote:

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- Is there a way to hide these list footer links in an email signature block? - If there are two '^-- \n$', do email clients fold at the first?

Note that the MM 2 list footer had somewhat different content, but the same structure as this one.

In any case, if there is consensus that the 'line' at the beginning of the footer should be changed to a '-- ' separator, I can do that. Let me know.

Here's more detail.

This gets very tricky. If the original post is a simple text/plain message, Mailman will just append the footer to the message body. In that case, if the original had a signature with a '-- ' separator and the footer also had one, Thunderbird treats everything from the first separator on as a signature block. I didn't check any other MUAs.

However, if the original post is more complicated such that after possible content filtering (not done on this list) it is other than a simple text/plain message, the footer is added as a separate MIME part.

For example, the message to which I'm replying had the original structure

multipart/alternative text/plain plain text alternative text/html rich text alternative

and the post delivered from Mailman had the structure

multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain plain text alternative text/html rich text alternative text/plain the footer

There is much variation in how different MUAs render that.

-- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG mailing list distutils-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/ar chives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/3P73LBXITY67G5K K775OONBZDKPEZAG5/