[Mailman-Users] Preserve HTML format while scrubbing file attachments

[Darrell Burkey]

I have spent years campaigning against HTML email so I can't believe I'm
asking this but no accounting for the wishes of users. :-(

I've read the FAQs until my eyes are square and I can see some discussions
in the mailing list archives but no definitive answer to essentially this
post in 2006:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg40147.html

which asks if there is a way to preserve html formatted messages while still
having file attachments scrubbed? I don't think the replies to the above
message really understood what was being asked as I'm not worried about the
archives at this point in time, rather I just want a message that a user
sends that contains html formatting to retain that formatting and have any
file attachment sent converted to a link (scrubbed).

What I get now if a html email with a file attachment comes through to a
list is a message distributed with the following scrub notifications (and
the message in plain text):

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://www.communitylists.org.au/mailman/private/case-test/attachments/20080
309/f127997e/attachment.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: CASE_SLA.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 91582 bytes
Desc: not available
Url :
http://www.communitylists.org.au/mailman/private/case-test/attachments/20080
309/f127997e/attachment.pdf 

I'm using MailMan 2.1.9, fairly stock CentOS system with sendmail. Lovely
mhonarc/htdig integration patches by OpenInfo. 

I've set ARCHIVE_HTML_SANITIZER to various values and tried every
combination of Content Filtering, Non-Digest file scrubbing settings a
person could ever come up with. Many hours of testing gone by. 

I Would really appreciate some assistance as it just doesn't seem possible
to me that MailMan can't preserver html messages and at the same time scrub
file attachments given all the great work that has been done on it in the
last few years.

Cheers from down under.

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Darrell Burkey
0408 622 647