[Mailman-Users] HTML formatting in digests
Delpy
delpy at sover.net
Fri Feb 8 06:32:47 CET 2002
I think this may have something to do with HTML posts to the lists. I've
heard filtering for this will be an option in 2.1. In the interim,
www.exim.org (the MTA I'm using w/OpenBSD 2.9) uses Mailman 2.08 and manages
to ship decent digests. Maybe they'd be willing to give up the secret... As
soon as I get a round-to-it, I'll ask ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "marina" <marina at reliance.it>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:03 AM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] HTML formatting in digests
> Will the formatting of email messages in digests be fixed in 2.1?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that, even though I do have access to a
> competent Python programmer, we manage a large mailing list on a
> server that we do not have admin access to. We get daily complaints
> from Internet users about the formatting of the digests.
>
> For those who have never seen this digest problem, I include an
> excerpt from yesterday's digest for the Mailman-user group (no
> criticism of the poster, btw - this is a common problem).
>
> Thanks,
>
> marina
> <http://www.soapnaturally.org>
>
>
> [snip]
> >
> >------_=_NextPart_001_01C1AF47.26790A10
> >Content-Type: text/html;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
> ><HTML>
> ><HEAD>
> ><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
> ><META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version
5.5.2653.12">
> ><TITLE>RE: [Mailman-Users] Point directly to listinfo</TITLE>
> ></HEAD>
> ><BODY>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks for the suggestion, but I am not sure
> of the exact meaning of your solution.</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>Here's what Ii understand:</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>I checked my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and
> yes it says:</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>LoadModule rewrite_module
> modules/mod_rewrite.so</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>in the file.</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>Then I copied the lines you suggest in that file (I
> placed them right after the ScriptAlias lines)</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>I restarted the httpd daemon (killall -HUP httpd)
> and accessed my site. Same page as before. Am I missing a step?</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>MGL</FONT>
> ></P>
> >
> ><P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Richard Barrett [<A
> HREF="mailto:R.Barrett at ftel.co.uk">mailto:R.Barrett at ftel.co.uk</A>]</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Sent: February 6, 2002 12:33 PM</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> To: Lafleur Maurice;
mailman-users at python.org</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Point directly
> to listinfo</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> At 11:45 06/02/2002 -0500, Lafleur Maurice
> wrote:</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >The list server I am setting up is only
> used for lists. I </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> want the default </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >page from apache to be
> my.server.org/mailman/listinfo </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> directly. I tried to </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >make a symlink between
> /var/www/html/index.html and </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >/home/mailmna/cgi-bin/listinfo :</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ></FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >ln -s /home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo
> /var/www/html/index.html</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> This will not work as you are trying to link
> a static page to </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> a cgi script. </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> The link is fine but Apache cannot interpret
> this as you want.</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Asdsuming you have mod_rewrite installed, the
> following </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Apache re-write </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> rules will work to "transparently"
> redirect the URI '/' and </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> '/index.html' </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> to the cgi-script</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> RewriteRule ^/$ /mailman/listinfo [PT]</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> RewriteRule ^/index.html$ /mailman/listinfo
[PT]</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Whether you will get any knock-on problems
> with the browser </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> interpreting </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> relative links on the pages returned
> incorrectly is another </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> issue. If that </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> happens your may want to use the rewrite
> rules to redirect / </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> and /index.html:</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> RewriteRule ^/$ /mailman/listinfo [R,L]</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> RewriteRule ^/index.html$ /mailman/listinfo
> [R,L]</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >but I get a Mailman CGI error page when I
> browse my server.</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ></FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> >If I access </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>> ><<A
> HREF="http://my.server.org/mailman/listinfo"
> TARGET="_blank">http://my.server.org/mailman/listinfo</A>><A
> HREF="http://my.server.org/m"
> TARGET="_blank">http://my.server.org/m</A></FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>ailman/listinfo </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>directly it works fine.</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>I know it is something real simple and obvious
> but I can't seem to think </FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>strait today.</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Thanks</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>MGL</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>--</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Maurice G. Lafleur
> +------------------------------------------------+</FONT>
> ><BR><FONT
>
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> ></P>
> >
> ></BODY>
> ></HTML>
> >------_=_NextPart_001_01C1AF47.26790A10--
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