[Mailman-Users] Mailman Archive problems with opening attachments

[martin moriarty]

Many thanks for the good and  informational answer. I'll be upgrading to 
2.1.9 soon so will check it out as well
thanks
Mark Sapiro wrote:

>martin moriarty wrote:
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>>We're running mailman 2.1.5 successfully here. Weve a particular problem 
>>with viewing attachments from arhives in a moderated list. I  can send 
>>an attachment as moderator ( PDF ) to the list and its distributed 
>>correctly after moderation. If however you go to view it from Archive 
>>you get the following
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>>-------------- next part --------------
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>>Skipped content of type multipart/mixed 
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>>instead of the attachment, which is a problem for anyone joining the list late
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>>Tried sending the same attachment as another user other than the moderator , again it goes for moderation , is received fine, 
>>but you receive the following:
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>>-------------- next part --------------
>>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
>>Name: advert-dsystems-phds.pdf
>>Type: application/pdf
>>Size: 21837 bytes
>>Desc: not available
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>>It does in this case give a url which you can eventually open the attachment, a bit messy.
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>The second behavior is the expected behavior. I don't know why it would
>be different depending on who posts except perhaps different MUAs are
>used resulting in a different MIME structure for the message.
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>I don't recall the details, but there have been scrubber issues in the
>past that could result in the first behavior, but this really
>shouldn't happen.
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>>Does anyone know if its possible to fix this behaviour so that you can view attachments from Archive. It did work for us last year. The
>>attachments are being saved in the attachments subdirectory within mailman ok
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>Pipermail does not have the ability to archive Multipart messages at
>all, not to mention the ability to convert a PDF attachment to HTML so
>it could be viewed inline in the archive.
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>Thus, all messages must be 'scrubbed' before archiving. Scrubbing
>consists of saving all non-plain text attachments and plain text parts
>with incompatible character sets separately in the 'attachments'
>directory and replacing them with hyperlinks in the original message
>and flattening the original into a single plain text message for the
>archive.
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>If there are problems with the current (2.1.9) scrubber, we would like
>to get the details (a copy of the original problem message with all
>headers and MIME structure intact) so we can fix the scrubber, but
>messages to be archived by pipermail must be scrubbed to be
>intelligible in the archive. The only way around this is to use a
>different (external) archiver, but I don't think you are ever going to
>be able to display PDF inline in an HTML page in a browser independent
>way without converting it to HTML which defeats the entire purpose of
>using PDF in the first place.
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