Coerce Plain Text with Mailman 2.1
Hi everyone,
We've been running Mailman 2.0.x with the coerce plain text patch previously and this worked great. All mail sent by AOL users or M$ Word users got nicely converted to plain text. Additional viruses that might be send to the mailinglists also got rendered inactive because all MIME got stripped from the message as a matter of fact. So attachments were also impossible. We choose to do this plain text coercing for multiple reasons.
But okay, here is my problem: I've now started with giving Mailman 2.1 a try on my testing machine. I've used the unofficial undo-coerce patch to get Mailman to update the old lists and so far so good. Mailman 2.1 seems to run as it should.
But then we get to the point of trying to see if the HTML to Plain Text conversion has been set properly. As I've understood Mailman 2.1 should be able to do this plain text coercing itself without an additional patch.
Using Outlook Express 6, I create a standard HTML message (using one of OE's default templates) and the first tries resulted in the message disappearing into nowhere. So next I removed all content filter settings, so it now says:
- Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? [ Yes ]
- Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. [ Empty ]
- Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. [ Empty ]
- Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? [ Yes ]
- Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules. [ Forward to List Owner ]
Using this settings it indeed converts the email from HTML to plain text.... however, the plain text body is attached as an attachment instead of being in the body of the email. The only thing in the email's body is the message footer.
So, my question is if anyone here might happen to know how I can get Mailman 2.1 act similar to Mailman 2.0.x with the coerce plain text patch active. Or at the very least, how to get Mailman 2.1 to put the body of an email in the body and not add it as an attachment?
Kind regards,
Guido -- Webmaster ST Frontier Fleet
"Creativity is necessary for the health of the body." -- Spock, "Return of the Archons"
Try setting this one to:
multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain
david
Hi David,
Thanks for your reply. Even though it would bring me back to my default settings I gave it a try again and after a lot of error and try I found out that the messages using OE6's template were discarded because they included images. However, if I simply type a message and tell OE to send it as HTML, then Mailman seems to do the conversion indeed the right way.
Now what I need to find out next is if I could set Mailman 2.1 to strip these attachments instead of discarding/rejecting the message in a whole....
Well, using Mailman 2.1 to restrict plain text seems to be abit harder then using a patched Mailman 2.0.x but with some more error and try I should probably succeed. :-)
Thanks so far. And if anyone has some more suggestions, I'm all ears. ;-)
Kind regards,
Guido
"If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!" -- Worf -- ST VIII: First Contact
Try setting this one to:
multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain
david
Hi David,
Thanks for your reply. Even though it would bring me back to my default settings I gave it a try again and after a lot of error and try I found out that the messages using OE6's template were discarded because they included images. However, if I simply type a message and tell OE to send it as HTML, then Mailman seems to do the conversion indeed the right way.
Now what I need to find out next is if I could set Mailman 2.1 to strip these attachments instead of discarding/rejecting the message in a whole....
Well, using Mailman 2.1 to restrict plain text seems to be abit harder then using a patched Mailman 2.0.x but with some more error and try I should probably succeed. :-)
Thanks so far. And if anyone has some more suggestions, I'm all ears. ;-)
Kind regards,
Guido
"If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!" -- Worf -- ST VIII: First Contact
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