Thanks for any help on this. We have a mailman list set-up as a newsletter type list. We'd like to send basic html formatted email. This seems to work seamlessly for regular subscribers - they receive the html email that was sent. However, "digest" subscribers get a message about the html being "scrubbed" and are provided with a link to view the message - not good at all.
So I'd like to resolve this problem by either 1 - Disabling the digest option (easy) and then changing all the "digest" subscribers to regular subscribers (this appears to be difficult - doing it by hand would be impossible - big list) How does one do this?
2 - Somehow prevent the digests from "scrubbing" html
Any help would be great! Thanks.
Jeff
At 8:58 AM -0800 2/13/07, Jeff Pflueger wrote:
So I'd like to resolve this problem by either 1 - Disabling the digest option (easy) and then changing all the "digest" subscribers to regular subscribers (this appears to be difficult - doing it by hand would be impossible - big list) How does one do this?
Use "withlist". There are plenty of examples in the FAQ Wizard and the archives.
2 - Somehow prevent the digests from "scrubbing" html
That's not really feasible. The problem is that the process of creating the digest does all sorts of things to the message which is not compatible with HTML. So, while you technically could change the source code in your version of Mailman to remove the Scrubber component from the digest process, the result simply wouldn't work.
Moreover, Mailman usually does a *lot* of things to messages as they are passing through, and even if you go out of your way to avoid most of them, you're still gambling that the input HTML will be formatted in such a way that the minimal modifcations won't hopelessly screw it up beyond recognition.
That's a pretty big bet.
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Brad Knowles wrote:
At 8:58 AM -0800 2/13/07, Jeff Pflueger wrote:
2 - Somehow prevent the digests from "scrubbing" html
That's not really feasible. The problem is that the process of creating the digest does all sorts of things to the message which is not compatible with HTML. So, while you technically could change the source code in your version of Mailman to remove the Scrubber component from the digest process, the result simply wouldn't work.
The above is correct as far as 'plain' format digests are concerned, but 'MIME' format digests aren't scrubbed because each individual messages MIME structure is maintained in the MIME format digest.
So you could set mime_is_default_digest to MIME, and then use withlist as in Brad's answer to 1 to set all current subscribers to MIME. The problem with this is that different MUAs render the MIME digest differently. Users with non-MIME aware MUA's will not like it at all. Some other user's MUAs will show each message as an attachment which some find annoying.
OTOH, you could just suggest that those users who don't like the scrubbed 'plain' digest try the MIME digest instead and choose for themselves which is better.
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