[Mailman-Developers] content filtering bug (text/html and text/plain in multipart emails)
Tokio Kikuchi
tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp
Wed Jul 13 09:29:34 CEST 2005
Hi again,
Michael Dunlap wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been reading the archives and it looks as if the problem of having
> content filtering on and passing multi-part emails (plain and html)
> isn't really solvable. One email to the users list summarizes the
> problem this way:
>
>
>
>>There is a basic design decision in content filtering that makes this
>>difficult. Namely, after filtering, only the first remaining sub-part
>>from a multipart/alternative part is retained.
>>
>>What this means in practice is if you want to allow both text/plain
>>parts and text/html parts, the only way to get html to the list is to
>>insure that the MUA (e-mail client) that creates the post creates an
>>html only message, not a multipart/alternative message with both
>>text/plain and text/html sub-parts.
>>
>>If you want Mailman content filtering to pass the html part from a
>>multipart/alternative post, the only way to do this is to disallow
>>text/plain and require everyone to post html, or to turn off content
>>filtering and allow everything.
>
>
> My question is two parts. One, is there a work-around available, and
> two is this a "feature" which the developers intend to fix?
>
I've just checked in my patch to fix this. It introduces a new
attribute 'collapse_alternatives' in the maillist object. You will need
to run 'bin/update -f' after upgrading your installation to the latest CVS.
Cheers,
--
Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp
http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/
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