[Mailman-Developers] Some patch for mailman

Janne Sinkkonen janne@avocado.pc.helsinki.fi
14 Jul 1998 13:46:18 +0300


"Dan Ohnesorg, admin on power" <Dan@feld.cvut.cz> writes:

> I have list with 500 subscribers and 50 mesages per day,  when I shall distribute 
> unwanted parts of this messages, I am worried. It takes many MB, winmail.dat is 
> many times bigger than mail itself.

You can filter on the basis of headers, and reject messages which
contain HTML or WINMAIL stuff. We do that and it works well. 

If you start doing automatically things like removing HTML, there's no
end to it. It's better to educate subscribers to behave properly.

-- 
Janne