[Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

[Ruth Indeck]

Just to add a little more -- I'm still experimenting:

When I remove the html coding and send my message as plain text, that annoying message, "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed", disappears.

And when I send the message as plain text, and include the attachments, the message comes out fine, and without the attachments (this is good -- I set Content Filtering to be on).

Question: Why doesn't Mailman convert the html to plaintext on its own?

The intro to Content Management says:

Finally, any text/html parts that are left in the message may be converted to text/plain if convert_html_to_plaintext <https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/admin/peoplesvoicecafe/contentfilter?VARHELP=contentfilter/convert_html_to_plaintext> is enabled and the site is configured to allow these conversions.

I have "convert to text/plain" enabled.

What does the second part mean? How do you configure your site to allow these conversions? Is it something a regular administrator could do, or is it something that the host site of my Mailman list has to do?



On 1/17/11 11:47 AM, Ruth Indeck wrote:
> I don't know a lot about scripts, so the most useful answers would involve just telling me what settings to use.
>
> I would like to have content filtering turned on, because I would like to make sure that attachments don't go out on the list, and especially the dangerous ones.
>
> Here are my problems (I have not yet added a lot of names, and am still in the testing stage):
>
> 1. When I try to turn Content Filtering on, my email (an announcement of shows at a folk club, with links and some html) comes through with the html intact and a message at the top saying:
>
> "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed"
>
> When I turn CF off, there is no strange message and the email comes through ok, but I worry that someone else might send an email with a bad attachment.
>
> 2. When I tried to send the same message with a pdf and a Word doc, just to test it, the message went through without any content at all -- neither the attachments nor the actual email message came through.
>
> Here are the settings I am using:
>
> Yes
>
> Blank
>
> multipart/mixed
> multipart/alternative
> text/plain
> message/rfc822
>
> exe
> bat
> cmd
> com
> pif
> scr
> vbs
> cpl
>
> Blank
>
> Yes
> Yes
> Reject
>
>
>
>
>
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