3 Apr
2001
3 Apr
'01
2:30 a.m.
"AM" == Andrew McNamara <andrewm@connect.com.au> writes:
AM> You'll soon end up with a complex language for specifying
AM> things like "accept binary attachments only if preceeded by a
AM> text/plain", etc.. 8-)Ug. It's probably inevitable, but I really don't want Mailman to become a hypergeneralized MIME slicer-n-dicer.
AM> BTW, I think there's a special mime type for headers and
AM> footers - text/plain isn't the right one. Can't remember off
AM> the top of my head.I'm not aware of it, so I'd appreciate pointers. Maybe you're thinking of multipart/digest or message/* types? Neither is exactly appropriate in this context.
AM> The safest rules would be:
AM> - if it's not a mime message, do the old thing.Agreed.
AM> - if it's
AM> mime, and it's not already a multipart/mixed, create a
AM> text/multipart with header/original mime/footer.I think you mean "create a multipart/mixed with 3 subparts, the header, the original article, and the footer".
AM> - it it's
AM> mime, and and multipart/mixed, simply insert and append the
AM> header and footer parts.Agreed.
My main objective is above all "to do no harm", so for now, I'm going to adopt these rules:
- if it's not MIME or it's text/plain, do the old thing
- if it's multipart/mixed, add the header and footers as
additional subparts
- anything else, pass the message through unchangedWe can elaborate on that last one later if necessary.
-Barry