[Mailman-Users] body of email being stripped out into attachment byhotmail and other receiving servers

[Mark Sapiro]

Henrik wrote:
>
>hotmail users (and toronto.ca users, our city government), find that 
>emails they get from our gnu mailman lists that have the body stripped 
>out and moved to an attachment. This causes confusion, and in one case 
>even the attachement is reported as being blank. (The header and footer 
>appear in the main body of the email). Is there some way to prevent this 
>from happening?


Don't add msg_header or msg_footer to list mail.

Alternatively, convince your users to post only text/plain messages or
use content filtering to remove any non text/plain parts.

See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp>
for some discussion of the issue.

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