[Mailman-Users] Messages Appearing Twice

[Mark Sapiro]

David Andrews wrote:
> 
> The text of messages is appearing twice in the digests for some of my 
> lists.  There will be the normal digest stuff, then the first message 
> with headers etc., then it will say
> next part
> 
> then the body of the message will app3ear again.  My digest type is 
> set to Plain.
> 
> Is this related to processing of html messages or something?  What can I do?


>From your description above, I believe you are seeing both the
text/plain and text/html parts of a multipart/alternative message. There
are several ways to deal with this.

1)If you have a good, MIME aware MUA, set your digest type to MIME.

2)Train list posters to post only plain text (generally not possible,
but see <http://www.expita.com/nomime.html>).

3) Set the list's filter_content to Yes and either put things like

multipart
message/rfc822
text/plain

and not

text/html

in pass_mime_types, or if you want to accept HTML only messages, set
collapse_alternatives to Yes.

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