[Mailman-Developers] some mime filter notes...

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 01:07  PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> I'm wondering if there are good values for defaults here.  I'm
> thinking specifically adding m/a, m/m, t/p to DEFAULT_PASS_MIME_TYPES
> in Defaults.py.in.
>

I think so. It seems to pass along what is "the best compromise" for 
turning things into a text/plain message going out the other end, which 
is (I think) what most list users really want.

I've seen one funky thing, which is that if you take a M/M and strip it 
to a text/plain by removing the vcards and whatever else the mail 
server was attached, I've been told that the message when sent to an (I 
think) exchange server will turn the message footer into an attachment. 
That seems to be an exchange/outlook "feature". Whether we want to 
worry about that or not, I dunno.

But IMHO, that's the only glitch I've seen recently. My lists now seem 
rock solid, and I'm quite happy with them. I've had one guy have 
messages eaten because he was sending a text/html without a comparable 
text/plain, so his messages were showing up blank. When I pointed it 
out to him, he admitted he was simply hacking a web page into his 
email, so he realizes that's his problem, not mine.

The personalization is confusing a few people and messing up some 
people's filtering, but that's all working ot get people used to 
things, and I've been telling people to use List-ID for filtering for a 
year anyway... (grin).

I don't see any issues on my end. It's really stabilized nicely.


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