[Mailman-Users] Enforcing ASCII in a list

[alex wetmore]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote:
> alex wetmore <alex at phred.org> writes:
> >> Is there a way with Mailman 2.0.8 to filter out HTML and attachments,
> >> per-list?
> >
> > Look at the privacy page (under list admin) for "Hold posts with..."
>
> A lot of the mail encoded with HTML doesn't have anything in the header
> warning you the contents are HTML.
>
> I just looked at a message written by a user, using "Microsoft Outlook
> Express 6.00.2600.0000", and there's nothing in the header suggesting HTML
> is used. The message is formatted with HTML, however.

The content-type header is the key.  HTML messages will often be of
multipart/alternate, but might be text/html.

alex