[Mailman-Users] A basic filtering MIME question

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Jan 4 04:34:06 CET 2011


On 1/3/2011 6:28 PM, yahoo wrote:
> On 1/3/11 2:06 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>> filter_content - Yes
>> filter_mime_types - empty
>> pass_mime_types -
>>    multipart
>>    message/rfc822 (allows plain text and converted HTML from attached
>>                    messages. Remove to filter attached messages)
>>    text/plain
>>    text/html
>> filter_filename_extensions -
>>    exe bat cmd com pif scr vbs cpl
>>    (these are defaults - this setting doesn't exist in 2.1.3)
>> pass_filename_extensions - empty; default; this setting doesn't exist
>>    in 2.1.3)
>> collapse_alternatives - Yes (this setting doesn't exist in 2.1.3)
>> convert_html_to_plaintext - Yes
> 
> Err, I see all those in our 2.1.3...


Then it's not 2.1.3 because the *_filename_extensions settings didn't
appear until 2.1.6 and collapse_alternatives first appeared in 2.1.7.

Maybe it's 2.1.13? Or maybe it's 2.1.9 which is the RedHat el5 RPM version.

> I'll add a comment. FAQ 1.8 is confusing because it does not make it
> clear what comments relate to 2.0, and what to 2.1.
> 
> Further, it's discussing both HTML & MIME issues.


Agreed.

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