[Mailman-Developers] multipart/alternatives and Archive Scrubber behaviour

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

> The scrubber uses the "walk" method of an email message to find and scrub
> those hard-to-shift HTML stains but when the archiver page is generated in
> the second pass the scrubber uses the get_payload method instead.  As a
> result, the scrubber never descends into the nested multipart/alternative
> part and doesn't display either the text of the message or a link to the
> HTML attachment (your results will vary depending on your site policy for
> the archiver).

You are perfectly right. The fix has long been on the patch trackers:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=891491&group_id=103&atid=300103

> Is this a bug or is there a real reason why get_payload is used for the
> second stage of the scrubber process?

Because Barry is too busy to review the accumulated patch. ;-)

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