[Mailman-Developers] RE: [Mailman-Announce] RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 2

[Thomas M. Parris]

Barry,

Thanks for your hard work.  There are a bunch of us out here who truly value
your efforts.

I have a thought about your "de-mime" feature.  You indicate a method for
converting text/html to text/plain via an external filter (lynx).  In
principle, this could be generalized to convert other mime types to text via
appropriate external filters.  For example, postscript and pdf files could
be converted to text via ghostscript.  There are also filters for converting
MS-Word and rtf files to text.

As someone who is becoming more and more paranoid about the use of binary
attachments on my lists, this would be an excellent way to go.  Do you have
intentions along these lines? Or, should I continue to examine the growing
body of external tools that do this?

Many thanks,
-- Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-announce-admin@python.org
[mailto:mailman-announce-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Barry A. Warsaw
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:57 AM
To: mailman-announce@python.org
Cc: mailman-users@python.org; mailman-developers@python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Announce] RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 2



I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 2; see below for a list of changes
since version 2.1 beta 1.  There have been lots of bug fixes, Korean
language support aded, and a couple of new features (a bit of a thaw
in the feature freeze ;).

Remember that discussions about version 2.1 are preferred on
mailman-developers.  I plan on moving mailman-developers over to the
new version tomorrow, and if that works well, the other mailman-*
mailing lists at python.org too.

Enjoy,
-Barry

2.1 beta 2 (05-May-2002)

    Lots of bug fixing, and the following new features and changes:

    - A "de-mime" content filter feature has been added.  This
      oft-requested feature allows you to specify MIME types that
      Mailman should strip off of any messages before they're posted
      to the list.  You can also optionally convert text/html to
      text/plain (by default, through lynx if it's available).

    - Changes to the way the RFC 2919 and 2369 headers (i.e. the
      List-*: headers) are added:
          o List-Id: is always added
          o List-Post:, List-Help:, List-Subscribe:,
            List-Unsubscribe:, and List-Archive: are only added to
            posting messages.
          o X-List-Administrivia: is only added to messages Mailman
            creates and sends out of its own accord.

      Also, if the site administrator allows it, list owners can
      suppress the addition of all the List-*: headers.  List owners
      can also separately suppress the List-Post: header for
      announce-only lists.

    - A new framework for email commands has been added.  This allows
      you to easily add, delete, or change the email commands that
      Mailman understands, on a per-site, per-list, or even per-user
      basis.

    - Users can now change their digest delivery type from MIME to
      plain text globally, for all lists they are subscribed to.

    - No language select pulldowns are shown if the list only supports
      one language.

    - More mylist-admin eradication.

    - Several performance improvements in the bounce qrunner, one of
      which is to make it run only once per minute instead of once per
      second.

    - Korean language support as been added.

    - Gatewaying from news -> mail uses its connections to the nntpd
      more efficiently.

    - In bin/add_members, -n/--non-digest-members-file command line
      switch is deprecated in favor of -r/--regular-members-file.

    - bin/sync_members grew a -g/--goodbye-msg switch.


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