[Mailman-Users] What am I missing: HTML messages are being stripped?

[Ivan Fetch]

Hello,

    Thank you Brad and Mark for your replies.

    The multipart/alternative and Mailman picking the "first alternative" 
was what I was overlooking.

    Apologies for not doing more searching before posting - trying to do 
too many things at once. :)


- Ivan.



On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Ivan Fetch wrote:
>>
>>    If I turn off content filtering for the list, HTML messages arrive ok,
>> however it seems as though we should be able to have content filtering
>> turned on yet HTML messages passing through unharmed with the settings
>> indicated above - what am I missing?
>
> The HTML parts that are being removed are one subpart of a
> multipart/alternative part. When content filtering is enabled, it
> always selects only the first remaining part (after any filtering)
> from a multipart/alternative group for delivery to the list.
>
> The fourth paragraph of the description on the Content Filtering page
> says:
>
> After this initial filtering, any multipart  attachments that are empty
> are removed. If the outer message is left empty after this filtering,
> then the whole message is discarded. Then, each multipart/alternative
> section will be replaced by just the first alternative that is non-
> empty after filtering.
>
> The last sentence describes this behavior.
>
> This has been discussed many times on this list. See
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-March/043172.html
> for a recent thread or go to
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.python.org+inurl%3Amailman-users+multipart%2Falternative
>
> --
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