[Mailman-Users] Mailman converts the body of messages into attachments

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:49 PM -0300 2005-02-22, Athos Rothen wrote:

>  	I am using Mailman 2.1.5 and have this list that converts
>  text/html parts to plain text (content filtering options enabled). It
>  works fine for most of users/messages. But when some users, those that
>  use webmailers (yahoo, hotmail, outlook web access), send messages to
>  the list, the body of their messages is converted to plain text and it's
>  being attached into their messages.

	I think you answered your own question -- webmail users are 
likely to be sending HTML/MIME messages, and you're converting them 
to plaintext.  However, they're probably still MIME formatted, or 
they need to be MIME formatted in order to deal with international 
character set issues, and therefore your clients perceive them to be 
attachments.

	This is basically the same issue discussed at 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp>.

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