[Mailman-Developers] Stripping binaries attachments

[Dan Mick]

Dan Mick wrote:
> 
> Gian Franco Baroni wrote:
> >
> > >>> Dan Mick <dmick@utopia.West.Sun.COM> 16/04/02 19.31.31 >>>
> > >>Yes, first, ask on mailman-users.
> > Sorry, I sent the mail to wrong list...
> > Shame on me :(
> 
> Well, probably not, if you're using 2.1a4.  I should have asked.
> 
> > >>Second, see FAQ entry 1.8.
> > Read, but I'm using 2.1a4 and I'm not sure if all the hints cover that version.
> 
> Except for 2.1-latest's penchant for saving messages as pickles, rather than plain
> text.  But you can turn that off with a switch inside the module, whose name
> I forget right at the moment.  Barry, given that people seem to often want to
> edit these messages, is it really a good idea to save them as non-plain-text?

Argh.  This had nothing to do with Gian Franco's question, but it's still a
valid concern.

For the question of HTML stripping, I think Mailman 2.1 only provides "archive
stripping" by default.  I use, and am happy with, demime.