[Mailman-Users] Issue with text to Mailman list serve

[Darren G Pifer]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Darren G Pifer wrote:
>
>   
>> I have attached the files you requested, as sent to me by the list 
>> administrator.
>>
>>     
>> It appears to me what is happening is the list server is sending the 
>> email with
>> 3 attachments but displays as 4 parts:  there is the message header, the 
>> text
>> version of the email, then an HTML version of the email, followed by the 
>> message
>> footer. I see like a line separator between each part. (I use the 
>> Thunderbird mail
>> client).  This does not seem like normal behavior.  If anything, there 
>> should
>> be a minimum of 3 parts, not 4.
>>
>> Let me know if there is any else you need from me.
>>     
>
>
>
> The actual attachments didn't get to the list, but they are as Darren
> describes.
>
> It appears that the original message to the list is
> multipart/alternative with test/plain and text/html alternative parts.
> The three message parts in addition to the headers are the text/plain
> part, the text/html part and the msg_footer.
>
> Something is wrong with what is happening to this message. Normally, if
> a message with structure
>
> multipart/alternative
>     text/plain
>     text/html
>
> is sent to a list and content filtering doesn't remove eather
> alternative or collapse alternatives, the msg_footer will be added as
> a separate part and the final message will look like
>
> multipart/mixed
>     multipart/alternative
>         text/plain
>         text/html
>     text/plain
>
> I.e. it will be converted to a multipart mixed message with two parts -
> part 1 being the original message parts and part 2 being the footer.
> In your case, it appears that the final message structure is
>
> multipart/mixed
>     text/plain
>     text/html
>     text/plain
>
> instead.
>
> What Mailman version is this?
>
>   
2.1.9

> What are the list's content filtering settings?
>   
Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the 
settings below?  No
Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. 
Leave this field blank to skip this filter test.

multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
text/plain

Should Mailman collapse multipart/alternative to its first part 
content?   Yes

Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion 
happens after MIME attachments have been stripped.   Yes

Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules.    
Discard

The Content Filtering settings are the same across all 3 lists the admin 
owns but only this one is it working
incorrectly.
> What is the raw message with all headers?
>    In Tbird, select the message and then File->Save As->File or just
> ctrl-S, and give it a name with a .txt extension. Then you can attach
> that .txt file to a list post.
>
>   
I see that my attachments did not come across so I have attached the raw 
message
removing only some private information.  The owner forwarded to me a copy of
the email sent to the list.

Regards, Darren
ODU