[Mailman-Users] Strange problem with password.

Tue Jul 11 19:44:31 CEST 2006

Fabiano Breves wrote:

>On 7/10/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
>As I'm in 2.1.8rc1 I think we don't need to worry about this firt one.
>
>
>
>> If you are using Mailman 2.1.7 or later, we still look for the
>> Approved: line in the first text/plain part in the message, but if we
>> find it, we attempt to remove it from all text parts. This may have
>> failed. If so, please send me (off list) a copy of the message (as an
>> attachment so I see it exactly with all headers and MIME structure).
>> Ideally, in this case, I would like to see the post as received by
>> Mailman, but if this isn't available, the post from the list will do.
>
>
>As soon I get to the office (probably tomorrow) I'll send to your e-mail the
>message.

Good. I'll look for it. When I first implemented the removal from HTML
parts, I tested with MS-OE 6, but things may have changed or it may do
tricky things depending on the password. For example, if one puts

Approved: xyz

in the message, this may wind up looking like

</head><body>Approved:&nbsp;xyz<br>Some more text...

in the HTML. Actually, I'll find that one and change it to

</head><body><br>Some more text...

but there may be variants that I don't find.

>We have a web application that can send mail to lists. Maybe I can change
>the way the poster sends the announce message. The aplication is based on
>ASP language. What header should I use and how I use it. Send msgs with this
>method seems to be the solution because I can take out the responsability of
>putting the password of the poster.

You put exactly the same

Approved: password

line, but you put it in the message headers instead of the message
body. Thus, you still need to provide the password, but since it is in
a recognizable header rather than in a body part and perhaps 'hidden'
in additional body parts, it can be reliably removed from the post
before it is sent out.

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