[Mailman-Users] Does Mailman alter messages attached to moderation notification emails?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 08/27/2015 06:22 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
> 
> Now it's happened again, this time in a plain text only message. The period is there in his copy of the sent message, missing in what went to the list. I can also see that it's missing in the copy of the message attached to the moderation notification.


Is the Message-ID: in his copy the same as in the list post?


> Does the list send out moderation notifications with the attached messages unaltered?


Yes.


> Is there any mechanism in mailman that could have removed the period?


I won't say it's not possible, but I doubt it. If so it would be in an
underlying Python library module.


> It also removed one from a URL sent to the list owner address, but again that message has passed through Mailman. I'm not able to easily get a sample of a message from him that hasn't been through Mailman, so I can't eliminate it as a suspect.
> 
> Looking at the raw messages, something that's common about them is that the missing period would fall exactly on the start of a line when it's wrapped, i.e after the = symbol which I assume is a soft eol, and in one of them the period is there in the plain text section, but missing in the html section.


It sounds as if this could be a 'format=flowed' issue. Please post one
of these raw messages as sent to mailman. Put the message in a file with
a .txt extension and attach it to your post. You can remove all the
headers with identifying info. I want to see all the MIME-Version:,
Content-Type: and Content-Transfer-Encoding: headers, the boundaries and
the sub-part headers and the part content.

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