[Mailman-Users] Re: Digest questions... (Kimberly Sargen)

Tokio Kikuchi tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp
Thu Feb 8 08:48:14 CET 2001


mailman-users-request at python.org wrote:
> 
>    1. Digest questions... (Kimberly Sargen)
>   ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Digest questions...
> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:57:38 -0800
> From: Kimberly Sargen <ksargen at trianinvestments.com>
> To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> 
> On some of the lists, we're having a problem with a number of people posting
> HTML/MIME format postings, and then the digest is put out as plain text.
> Well, you know what happens to those messages.  We're trying to find a way
> to EDIT the digest before it goes out, to cut out some of this mess.  We've
> got list members who are quitting due to the size and number of these
> "messy" messages.  Any suggestions?

Tell the users to select MIME-digest option. 
> 
> Also, if worst comes to worst, is there a way to BLOCK HTML/MIME messages
> from the list?  That way at least, people wouldn't be screaming quite so
> much about how big the digests are, and how much wasted bandwidth there
> is...

You can configure to hold the HTML/MIME messages by putting
content-type: multipart
content-type: text/html
in the suspicious headder section at privacy option.

--
Tokio Kikuchi




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