I've sometimes seen the text A non-text attachment was scrubbed... in our digests and archives, along with a hyperlink to a file. This seems to be inserted by Mailman when it strips a binary attachment.

This text was scaring our users, since the use of the word 'scrubbed' sounds like some malicious content was identified. I've changed it in our installation to just say A non-text attachment...

Any problems with this? Is my understanding correct of when we would expect to see the text?

Oddly, when there is a text body as well as binary attachments, the attachments seem to be silently dropped without mention, and there is no hyperlink to retrieve them. Is there any reason why this might happen? (I've hacked with HyperArch.py and Scrubber.py in other ways, so it may be a bug I've introduced.)

Many thanks, Chris

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