[Mailman-Users] Can mailman preprocess mails before doing the usualstuff?

[Jon Carnes]

Well, elements of what he's asking for can be trivially done with a
small milter.  Heck, "sed" could do most of what he desires.

If its a real need and folks ask for it (meaning make a lot of noise -
or *are* willing to pay for it), then it will be built in.  I've written
patches myself for mailman that clients paid for - and I've contributed
a lot of scripts... which clients paid for.

Are you getting the message?  Barry would love to see some donations. 
He does a lot of hard work, and we all benefit from his work.  If you
don't want to do the work yourself, get it done the old fashion way and
pay for it.  You might be surprised how much work a few bucks will get
you from Open Source programmers.

Just my $.02,

Jon Carnes   

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 15:51, = Michael Aivaliotis = wrote:
> It doesn't look like anything like this is possible. I asked the same
> question a while back and got no response. It could be because the question
> was posted to the wrong list. It looks like this list is more for support
> and getting up and running and not for feature requests or enhancements.
> 
> Also, if Mailman had the capabilities you describe then it would actually be
> a very powerful application. Too powerful to remain open-source and free.
> Look at what's heppening to MySQL. You add power then you ask for money. So,
> more features and capabilities mean more resources dedicated to development
> which requires financial backing. No-one is going to put money into
> something and not get anything in return...
> 
> Thank You
> Michael Aivaliotis
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailman-users-bounces+michael=mmwis.com at python.org
> > [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+michael=mmwis.com at python.org]On Behalf Of
> > Nagy Gabor
> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:22 AM
> > To: Mailman users list
> > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Can mailman preprocess mails before doing the
> > usualstuff?
> >
> >
> > Hi list!
> >
> > I would like to modify the messages I send on my lists.
> >
> > I would like to recode the text parts, so that all messages sent out use
> > the same encoding and character set, before doing anything else.
> >
> > Then I would like to strip the html parts from multipart/alternative
> > messages, so that only text/plain remains.
> >
> > Then I would like to put the message in the archive, using something like
> > mhonarc, so that the attachments are put in separate files.
> >
> > Then I would like to change the message sent out to the subscribers, so
> > that instead of the attachments, they receive the URL where they can
> > retreive the archived attachments, if they want to.
> >
> > Can this be done? What parts are possible, in what mailman versions?
> > Are there plans to implement such things?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gabor
> >
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