[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> text/html is trickier,

If by "trickier" you mean "impossible" then I'll agree. :)  Or maybe  
"insane" is more accurate.  Mailman will never try to parse text/html  
to concatenate a footer.  In fact, if it isn't text/plain and a  
matching character set, it punts to MIME attachment.  However...

> I've seen some systems add an additional MIME part to place a  
> trailer in, and that can be pretty effective for MUAs that will show  
> multiple parts in-line, but there are so many MUAs out there, that  
> it is extremely difficult to make any certain declarations regarding  
> what the user sees as a result.

It's actually easy to predict: they'll see crap that makes them  
unhappy.  The cases where I'm wrong about that are so rare as to  
probably not matter <wink>.

-Barry

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