[Mailman-Developers] multipart/alternative

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:09:05 -0700 
Jim Cole <lists at yggdrasill.net> wrote:

> Based on the code, comments, etc. it appears that removal of all parts
> other than the first non-empty alternative is intended as a feature
> and considered a good thing. Is this correct?

Yes, in particular many of us consider multipart/alternative mail with
text/plain and text/html parts to be very unwelcome.  Heck, many of us
consider that HTML mail of any form is decidedly unwelcome.

> Is the decision motivated by something deeper than simply eliminating
> some extra bytes?

Yes.

> Besides turning off filtering altogether, is there any other simple
> way to get Mailman to pass multipart/alternative as-is? Stripping
> alternatives is not likely to be acceptable for the environment to
> which we would be deploying.

Sure, turn off the filter via that list's fitering configuration.

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J C Lawrence
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