[Mailman-Users] HTML table code broken via Mailman

[Mark Sapiro]

Lloyd Tennison wrote:

>I thought they all still did not work, as stated in the FAQ's.  Good to know. 
> I will have to test it and see myself.


Whether or not it works depends on your definition of 'work'. I'm not
trying to contradict the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/84A9> which is
a good summary of the situation.

Actually adding the footer to the text/html part is very difficult to
get right as explained in the FAQ and as evidenced by the fact that
cPanel's attempt to do this tends to fail miserably when there are
attached images referenced in the text/html part.

That is why GNU Mailman doesn't try to do it, but simply adds the
footer as a separate MIME part. Some MUAs, e.g. Thunderbird as
evidenced by <http://www.msapiro.net/from_list.png>, do a reasonable
job of rendering such a message. Other MUAs don't do so well.


>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
<snip>
>> 
>> It is known that cPanel Mailman's addition of msg_footer to HTML parts
>> is broken. See <http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=61603>. You
>> will need to register at the cPanel forums site to see that post, but
>> since you are having problems with cPanel Mailman, you may want to do
>> that anyway so you can report your problems to the people who broke
>> the code.
>> 
>> 
>> FWIW, I sent your original directly-source.txt message through a test
>> list of mine with a msg_footer added, and it came through just fine. a
>> T'Bird screen shot will be at <http://www.msapiro.net/from_list.png>
>> for a day or two if you're interested.

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