[Mailman-Developers] content filtering bug (text/html and text/plain in multipart emails)

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi again,

Michael Dunlap wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been reading the archives and it looks as if the problem of having
> content filtering on and passing multi-part emails (plain and html)
> isn't really solvable.  One email to the users list summarizes the
> problem this way:
> 
> 
> 
>>There is a basic design decision in content filtering that makes this
>>difficult. Namely, after filtering, only the first remaining sub-part
>>from a multipart/alternative part is retained.
>>
>>What this means in practice is if you want to allow both text/plain
>>parts and text/html parts, the only way to get html to the list is to
>>insure that the MUA (e-mail client) that creates the post creates an
>>html only message, not a multipart/alternative message with both
>>text/plain and text/html sub-parts.
>>
>>If you want Mailman content filtering to pass the html part from a
>>multipart/alternative post, the only way to do this is to disallow
>>text/plain and require everyone to post html, or to turn off content
>>filtering and allow everything.
> 
> 
> My question is two parts.  One, is there a work-around available, and
> two is this a "feature" which the developers intend to fix?
> 

I've just checked in my patch to fix this.  It introduces a new 
attribute 'collapse_alternatives' in the maillist object.  You will need 
to run 'bin/update -f' after upgrading your installation to the latest CVS.

Cheers,

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Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp
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