On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:58:41 -0500 barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) wrote:
Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know that I've released Mailman 2.1 alpha 4. Below is the big list of changes with this release. This will be the last alpha release for 2.1, but this still leaves open the possibility of a few new features in MM2.1. I've got everything in that I intend to get in. If you've got a pet new feature -- and have code that implements it -- please do remind me about it now and I'll work on getting in what I can for the first beta.
Cool!
Here's my pet new feature: MIME stripping, particularly for getting rid of HTML and/or various binary attachments.
I just uploaded a patch (501199) against 2.1a4 that implements this in a Handler. It is per-list configurable with a list of regexps to match against the mime types to be deleted. (The config is in a new web page in the admin GUI, but maybe it'd be better stuck into one of the existing pages. I just didn't see an obvious candidate.)
This implementation was originally written for 2.1alpha3. We've been using it on a few lists for 2-3 months without problems. The basic algorithm has been in use for over a year on several medium-sized lists; it's not perfect but has done a good job of making the multipart HTML generated by a lot of MUAs palatable to plain-text readers, as well as stripping out images and other binaries that shouldn't be posted under the lists' charters.
-les