[Mailman-Users] several questions.

[Jan Steinman]

Thanks for the explanation, Mark. I've never used anything but plain  
text digests, so I didn't know there was a way to get attachments that  
way.

On 8 Aug 08, at 20:18, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> All the attachments that were included in the individual messages sent
> to a list (i.e. not removed by content filtering) are in the MIME
> format digest.
>
> Attachments of types other than plain text are scrubbed from the plain
> format digest and stored in the archive and replaced by URLs to the
> scrubbed attachments in the plain digest.
>
> So yes, plain digests do not contain the attachments, but do contain
> links to the attachments, but MIME digests contain the attachments in
> the digest.




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