How do I default to HTML, not plain text emails?
How do I make it so that new members on the lists get HTML email. It defaults to plain and after a bulk insert, I have to manually go check that checkbox. Grr.
On Apr 28, 2005, at 04:14, Daevid Vincent wrote:
How do I make it so that new members on the lists get HTML email. It defaults to plain and after a bulk insert, I have to manually go check that checkbox. Grr.
Are you referring to the 'plain' checkbox on the Membership Management... Membership List... page? That controls the format of the list digests (allowing you to select either plain text or MIME formatted digests). You can set the default on the Digest options... page. It does not refer to HTML formatted email.
If you want users to receive HTML formatted messages, you will want to mail HTML messages (or multipart-alternative) messages to the list, and make sure you have configured Content filtering... not to remove them or convert text/html parts into plain text. (You may also want to make sure the msg_footer is an empty string.)
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Aahh.. Okay. I guess I misunderstood what that checkbox was for. Seems silly that one would have a choice for the digests and not for regular emails. I thought the old mailman allowed a user to choose if they got the regular emails as plain or html. Hmm.
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:jwt@onjapan.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:22 PM To: Daevid Vincent Cc: Mailman Users List Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I default to HTML, not plain text emails?
On Apr 28, 2005, at 04:14, Daevid Vincent wrote:
How do I make it so that new members on the lists get HTML email. It defaults to plain and after a bulk insert, I have to manually go check that checkbox. Grr.
Are you referring to the 'plain' checkbox on the Membership Management... Membership List... page? That controls the format of the list digests (allowing you to select either plain text or MIME formatted digests). You can set the default on the Digest options... page. It does not refer to HTML formatted email.
If you want users to receive HTML formatted messages, you will want to mail HTML messages (or multipart-alternative) messages to the list, and make sure you have configured Content filtering... not to remove them or convert text/html parts into plain text. (You may also want to make sure the msg_footer is an empty string.)
-- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnJapan.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python Starship http://Starship.Python.net/crew/jwt/ Mailman IRC irc://irc.freenode.net/#mailman
"Daevid" == Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> writes:
Daevid> Aahh.. Okay. I guess I misunderstood what that checkbox
Daevid> was for. Seems silly that one would have a choice for the
Daevid> digests and not for regular emails.You don't get a choice of HTML or not for digests. You get a choice of formats for packaging several posts into one mail message. If the original posts contained HTML and that was not stripped, then it will be passed through. This may work better if the user chooses the MIME format for digests, but as far as I know both digest formats pass HTML just fine.
Daevid> I thought the old mailman allowed a user to choose if they
Daevid> got the regular emails as plain or html. Hmm.No. What you may have been observing is that multipart/alternative messages that contain BOTH plaintext and HTML versions of the same content were viewed as plaintext by members who set their MUAs to prefer plaintext, and were viewed as HTML by members who prefer HTML. Since the message contains both versions, the member can (and does) choose AFTER receiving the message.
In Mailman 2.1, it is (finally!) possible for the list admin to refuse and/or strip out HTML BEFORE it gets sent out by the list. Mailman is not capable of reformatting a message as HTML. Senders must do that themselves.
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