[Mailman-Developers] Mailman VS. Base64 encoding

Mikhail Zabaluev mhz@alt-linux.org
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 01:58:23 +0300


Hello Marc,

On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:09:48AM +0100, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 03:52:17PM +0800, hinet wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > It seems Mailman 2.0.6 can't process the base64 encoded e-mail,
> > so the Footer can't be appended to the e-mail correctly, and the archives are
> > also base64 encoded,  does anyone have any suggesttion?
> 
> 1) post to mailman-users, your question doesn't belong here
> 2) mm 2.0 doesn't support mime fully, the the archiver not at all.
>    Use stripmime to remove attachments before they hit the list

Some messages have text bodies encoded into base64; they are currently 
decorated with header and footer, plain and wrong.
I have posted a patch earlier.

As for solutions, one could employ the 'email' module, which has
been included in Python 2.2.

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