Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help.
I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately.
I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest.
I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text.
QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode?
If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default?
Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so?
Thanks -
Steve
Steve Reiter wrote:
I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text.
The reason this option is in the digest section is it affects only the format of digests. It is totally meaningless for non-digest subscribers. If you select MIME digests, the digest is multipart with each message in its own part. Otherwise it is flat plain text.
QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode?
If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default?
Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so?
Your questions are not relevant to what you are doing. To send MIME format messages to non-digest subscribers you just post that format to the list and either turn off content filtering or adjust the content filtering to pass what you want.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Hi,
This question from Jan 2005 is still a problem. All the addresses I load into mailman end up with a check in the "plain" box when listed under membership management. I seem to recall (from years ago) a config choice for new non-digest subscribers to force plain format, but it's not in the 2.1.14 version.
The current admin manual does not address (that I can find) what effect the plain check box has on non-digest subscribers. If there is no effect, perhaps I can contribute some text to explain what happens--when I know.
Bill
QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode?
If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default?
Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so?
Your questions are not relevant to what you are doing. To send MIME format messages to non-digest subscribers you just post that format to the list and either turn off content filtering or adjust the content filtering to pass what you want.
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W. Flanagan wrote:
This question from Jan 2005 is still a problem. All the addresses I load into mailman end up with a check in the "plain" box when listed under membership management. I seem to recall (from years ago) a config choice for new non-digest subscribers to force plain format, but it's not in the 2.1.14 version.
The current admin manual does not address (that I can find) what effect the plain check box has on non-digest subscribers. If there is no effect, perhaps I can contribute some text to explain what happens--when I know.
The plain/MIME setting only affects digests. It has no effect whatsoever on non-digest subscribers.
The actual option bit exists for all subscribers and is controlled for new subscribers by the Digest options -> mime_is_default_digest setting, but it only actually affects the format of the digest for digest subscribers.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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