[Mailman-Users] Embedded/Externally Linked Images as Attachments

[Mark Sapiro]

Ryan Lewis wrote:
>
>We recently upgraded our server and in turn upgraded to 2.1.7 of  
>Mailman.
>
>Everything seems to be as swell as ever for our PC subscribers.
>
>However for subscribers using Apple Mail and MS Entourage the images  
>embedded in our eMails are no longer working "perfectly",  While in  
>Apple Mail they all show up inline like always they are also repeated  
>at the bottom of the eMail as if they were attachments and not  
>external links.  I've viewed the source and see the external links  
>replaced with "src=cid:par1blahblah at blah.com"  is there a way to get  
>around this? A setting in the admin or setup perhaps?


This specific issue ("src=cid:par1blahblah at blah.com") appears to be
that the MUA (email client) you use to create the mail is downloading
the externally linked file and attaching it to the mail as part of a
(probably) multipart/related message or message part containing the
HTML with references to the attached content.

Have you changed what you use to post the mail?

>Is this even Mailman doing this? I can't decide for 100% that it is,  
>and am not having much luck finding anything addressing this in the  
>documentation.

If you are adding msg_header or msg_footer to the mail, see
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp>.

If content filtering is off and you are not adding headers or footers,
Mailman shouldn't be making any changes to the MIME structure of what
you post.

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