[Mailman-Users] Unwanted Body Content

[Dan Mick]

> Dan Mick wrote:
> > 
> > The right answer is to configure Outlook so that it sends plain-text emails
> > without MIME sections.  Surely this must still be possible, even with the
> > Evil Empire's tools.
> 
> The right answer for whom? Surely not for the hapless list member?

Yes, the list member.  All of them.

> Why
> should they have to reconfigure their email client which they use
> happily with hundreds of people, where MIME is a blessing,

It's a wart on email, and needs to be stopped.

> in order to
> meet the needs of one mailing list they happen to be a member of?

To use the Internet mail service the way it was intended to be used?...


Yes, I'm aware this is a religious war.

> But it's the list administrator/list server's job to do this filtering,
> not the list member's. 

I disagree.

> It would be a great enhancement if mailman did
> this as slickly as it does other stuff.
> 
> 'stripmime', eh? I'd better find out something about it...

I'm using demime now; it's working pretty well.