[Mailman-Users] pass mime types

[Rueben]

I don't understand your answer.

Let me ask it differently.

What would the mime types look like if I wanted to allow attachments for PDF 
and image files?

Would it be any different if I wanted to allow html links to other websites?

Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sapiro" <mark at msapiro.net>
To: "Rueben" <roobin at theriver.com>; "Mailman-user" 
<mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] pass mime types


> Rueben wrote:
>
>>Under content filtering there is a field labeled: Remove message 
>>attachments that don't have a matching content type.
>>
>>In the box I have:
>>multipart/mixed
>>multipart/alternative
>>text/plain
>>
>>Can someone explain what each of those entries means, and give examples as 
>>to what kind of files would be affected by each filter?
>
>
> Those entries are the MIME content types that content filtering will
> accept. Any message part with a content-type other that those three
> will be filtered out. For example, in a message with the following
> structure
>
> multipart/alternative
>    text/plain
>    text/html
>
> The multipart/alternative part will be accepted and it's sub-parts
> examined. Of those, only the text/plain part will be accepted and the
> text/html part will be removed.
>
> For this message
>
> multipart/mixed
>    multipart/alternative
>        text/plain
>        text/html
>    application/msword
>
> again, only the text/plain part will be accepted and the text/html and
> application/msword parts will be removed.
>
> For this message
>
> multipart/related
>    multipart/alternative
>        text/plain
>        text/html
>    image/jpeg
>
> nothing will be accepted because the entire multipart/related message
> content type is not accepted.
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>