Hi.
I'm getting my mailman running nicely now - thanks to all of your help.
The primary purpose of having a list manager is to manage lists relating to my business, but I've had a request from my high school alumni association to manage a mailing list for the alumni too. They want to do some "cool" stuff like allow html messages, and even handle attached photos. Despite my discouragement, they persist :'(. I guess rules we meant to be broken, huh?
Actually, I'm pleased with how mailman is handling it. I've done some test posting of html formatted messages and some with photos, and they actually come through well. I'm especially impressed that the headers and footers are surviving html messages - I've used some other list managers and participated in other lists where you can guarantee that this won't work.
What isn't working is the digests and archives. The html messages show all of the tags and the photos display as text - not as an actual photo. It seems to me that this is something that should work, in theory. Does it, and I just don't have something set correctly? Or has the issue not been addressed? Or is it planned for a future version?
I know this is an issue that normally is off the radar because we don't want anything but pure text messages, but in this instance it does truly seem useful.
TIA
Rob
I'm getting my mailman running nicely now - thanks to all of your help.
I'd like to say that mailman also works well for several cycling advocacy and education (EC) lists in the Ottawa, Ontario area.
They want to do some "cool" stuff like allow html messages, and even handle attached photos. Despite my discouragement, they persist :'(. I guess rules we meant to be broken, huh?
I know this is an issue that normally is off the radar because we don't want anything but pure text messages, but in this instance it does truly seem useful.
I am curious about this too, as I would like to set up a specific list that allows MIME and html, specifically so that photographic information and drawings could be easily conveyed. Anyone subscribing to this list would have the expectation that they would receive these types of messages. It would be desirable to be able to view messages and attachements in the web mail archive.
I am a big fan of plain text messages, but I do think that there is an important need for something like a mail list and archiver that handles messages with attachments well.
Mailman/pipermail doesn't quite do this... Is there a mail list manager out there that handles this well? (Sorry if this question is somewhat off topic). Would it be useful to feed mailman messages to a private newsgroup server as the archiver and another access method?
Brett
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Brett Delmage wrote:
I am curious about this too, as I would like to set up a specific list that allows MIME and html, specifically so that photographic information and drawings could be easily conveyed. Anyone subscribing to this list would have the expectation that they would receive these types of messages. It would be desirable to be able to view messages and attachements in the web mail archive.
I am a big fan of plain text messages, but I do think that there is an important need for something like a mail list and archiver that handles messages with attachments well.
Mailman/pipermail doesn't quite do this... Is there a mail list manager out there that handles this well? (Sorry if this question is somewhat off topic). Would it be useful to feed mailman messages to a private newsgroup server as the archiver and another access method?
What about using a tool which stripped out attachments and put them onto a web server? This could be done before the message is processed by mailman. It would work well with all archiving tools and for users which have text based clients (like Pine) but are using a graphical workstation. The only downside that I can think of is that it wouldn't be as convinent for people who use offline readers to see the pictures.
I know that such tools exist, but I'm not directly familiar with any of them. It seems like a fairly simple thing to write as well. Demime or Stripmime would probably make a good basis for starting on one (Demime would probably be easier to hack for this based on what I know of it's internals...stripmime doesn't use any modules so you'd have to write the code to convert from base64 to binary).
alex
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