[Mailman-Users] Fw: Mailman bug when handling multipart content

Sun Mar 24 16:19:34 CET 2002

This "bug report" was generated from boost's recent (rocky) transition
from YahooGroups to Mailman.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Daniel" <cpdaniel at pacbell.net>
>
> One thing I noticed in the latest one though:  Mailmain doesn't handle
messages with HTML content correctly with regard
> to adding the footer to the message.  See the very abbreviated message
below.
>
> Reply-to: boost at lists.boost.org
>  <mailto:boost-request at lists.boost.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> List-Archive: <http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/>
> Content-type: multipart/alternative;
>  boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0"
>
>
> ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> original message
>
> ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> <HTML>original HTML message
>
> ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C1D1DD.53E552C0--
> _______________________________________________
> Unsubscribe & other changes:
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
>
> Since the footer was added outside the last boundary, it's ignored by
mail readers that are MIME aware.  The footer
> should be injected just before the second occurrence of the boundary
line in order to make it part of the base message
> text.
>
> With the prevalence of multipart content, MailMan really ought to
handle it better.

BTW, one thing that bit us (hard) was the inability to set people to
receive no email when mass-subscribing them. We probably made the wrong
choice and should have simply avoided subscribing those people
altogether, but had the option been there, making an appropriate choice
would've been easier.

-Dave