[Mailman-Developers] Header & Footer for non-ASCII messages

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have you tried this patch ?
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=664209&group_id=103&atid=300103 

Thanks. This looks like a start, but I'd add your new if case
as elif to the existing one; you'll also have to deal with errors
from trying to decode the payload and have to make sure that
in case of a conversion error, the default action (add MIME parts)
is chosen as fallback.


> Good luck.
> 
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> We have run into a problem which is probably not uncommon for
>> international mailing lists: whenever a message is sent that does
>> not have US-ASCII as content type, header and footer are attached
>> to this message via additional mime parts.
>>
>> This doesn't really look nice in the mail applications.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be wise to decode the message payload and prepend/
>> append the header and footer properly encoded to the payload
>> instead ?
>>
> 

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