[Mailman-Users] HTML Newsletter Setup

[David Ellsworth]

Uh, thanks for that Brad, I got it, it's complicated. All I need is a simple
way to get a formatted html email with Approved through the system. You're
telling me that that isn't going to be the case? I'm using an applescript
with Entourage on OS 10.47 to send the file to mailman. Perhaps another
email client that allows me to put the Approved comment in the email file
header? 

Thanks

David


On 9/7/06 9:17 PM, "Brad Knowles" <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

> At 8:17 PM -0400 2006-09-07, David Ellsworth wrote:
> 
>>  I've setup a MM2.1.5 newsletter list and set it up to accept emails with the
>>  option added in the first line of the email Approved: password.
>> 
>>  Problem is I can't get it to accept an HTML file formatted email without
>>  messing up my HTML and removing the Approved: password line.
> 
> See my other response (to andyk at spunge.org) regarding HTML filtering.
> 
> Handling HTML e-mail is hard enough when you're not trying to do any
> kind of processing or filtering to any of the content of the message.
> Trying to put some content filtering into that mix makes the problem
> exponentially harder.  Even something that is apparently as simple as
> stripping the "Approved:" header.
> 
> 
> If you can get the "Approved:" line out of the body of the message
> and into the actual headers of the message, that will make things a
> lot easier.
> 
> 
> But don't ever let anyone lie to you and try to convince you that
> doing content filtering on HTML e-mail is easy.
> 
> It's only easy if you have no concept of what is actually going on
> underneath the hood, and then it's only easy until what's going on
> underneath the hood fails in some catastrophic way.