[Mailman-Users] email footers

[Mark Sapiro]

Jim Popovitch wrote:

>I've been using demime for years to strip reduna nt email footers (Sent 
>by..., Post: ..., Options: ..., etc.) in addition to stripping 
>attachments.  I am now setting up a new server and plan to migrate 
>existing lists to it.  In the past we have not used Mailman's content 
>filtering mechanisms, but I plan to do so now (mm v2.1.8).   So.... a 
>cursory look at this list seems to show that MM can strip existing 
>footers off of email relies, is this true or does python.org use 
>something else?


Mailman can strip footers if they are a separate MIME part with a
content-type that you don't want to accept for the list. If the
footers are simply appended to the body of the mail or if they are
added as a separate MIME part but with the same content-type (e.g.
text/plain) as the body you want to accept, then Mailman's content
filtering can't remove them without also removing the body unless they
are in a separate MIME part with a 'filename' with a reliable
extension that you can filter on, but this is not likely to be the
case.

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