[Mailman-Users] Hotmail problem with Mailman 2.1.2

[Gerald Livingston]

Oops -- sent this private. Copy for the list.

On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:58:40 +0200
"Sylvain Langlade" <sylvain at adv-informatique.fr> wrote:

> > Since upgrading to Mailman 2.1.2, messages from Hotmail users
> > appear empty
> > on my lists.
> >
> > I have Content filtering configured to convert text/html to
> > text/plain, and
> > it seems to be stripping out the content of the messages.
> >
> > Any ideas (short of disabling Content Filtering)?
>
> IIRC, mailman "convert" messages by stripping the text/html
> version and keeping the text/plain one.
> 
> Hotmail messages are text/html only, which means there is no
> text/plain version. When dealing with such a text/html only message,
> you end up with something full of emptiness.
> 
> The only solution is to not use webmail client like Hotmail... Or have
> a html/plain converter included in a future Mailman release!
 
Or sending all messages for lists which may have such users through
procmail where they can be piped into an html2text converter before
delivery to the list.

-- 
Gerald V. Livingston II

Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page:
http://expita.com/nomime.html

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-- 
Gerald V. Livingston II

Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page:
http://expita.com/nomime.html

'74 Kombi (to be renamed - LifeSaver doesn't 'feel' right)
'69 Type 1 - AirBall the Rolling Basket Case
http://www.phorce1.com
http://www.buskatiers.org