[Mailman-Developers] Juat an Idea - HTML

[Harald Meland]

[Ricardo Kustner]

> On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 05:20:52PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:29:54 +0000 
> > David Sexton <david.sexton@sapphire.net> wrote:
> > > 	Would it be feasable for MM to strip out HTML tags from a
> > > message for the whole list (especially for when no HTML is in the
> > > list's acceptable use policy)?
> > There are external tools that can do this quite well.  See freshmeat
> > for a couple examples.  You can then just have your MailMan lists
> > run thru procmail which invokes the HTML stripper before handing off
> 
> while this is a good idea/solution, I still think it would be very
> useful to have this feature inside MM... you can't expect every admin
> to start using procmail filters...

I agree to the extent that list-specific configuration issues should
rather be taken care of inside Mailman than rely on whatever tricks
the list admins can harass their site admins into doing for them.


However, I suspect that implementing this specifically for
HTML-containing email would be a too specific solution to a more
general problem -- it seems to me that list admins want to block
incoming email on a whole lot of different criteria, and providing a
separate configuration button for each and every of these specific
criteria will bloat the admin pages a lot (they're actually too
unwieldy as they are now, IMHO).

So, I think we need to decide what classes of blocking criteria we
want to support, and then find a way of implementing each class in a
suitable fashion.

In the particular case of HTML-containing mail, I'd love to see a
general solution to transforming/blocking on/throwing away/whatever
MIME parts of specific types.  I'm not sure how the configuration
interface to this functionality should be done, though -- the goal
being to un-bloat the list admin pages while adding functionality...
-- 
Harald