[Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

[Ruth Indeck]

Thank you, Mark, for all your responses. I had originally thought I should have the list be able to convert to plain text, but then decided it would be ok to let messages go through as html. But I still wanted it to strip attachments.

I added text/html to the list, and set the bottom two things to "no" and now it is working -- I received the whole message with html, with no funny complaints about not being allowed, and it successfully stripped the test pdf and doc attachments I sent.

Ruth

On 1/17/11 12:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Ruth Indeck wrote:
>> Question: Why doesn't Mailman convert the html to plaintext on its own?
>>
>> The intro to Content Management says:
>>
>> Finally, any text/html parts that are left in the message may be converted to text/plain if convert_html_to_plaintext<https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/admin/peoplesvoicecafe/contentfilter?VARHELP=contentfilter/convert_html_to_plaintext>  is enabled and the site is configured to allow these conversions.
>>
>> I have "convert to text/plain" enabled.
>
> There are no HTML parts left after filtering because text/html is not
> in pass_mime_types.
>
>
>> What does the second part mean? How do you configure your site to allow these conversions? Is it something a regular administrator could do, or is it something that the host site of my Mailman list has to do?
>
> It means the HTML to plain text conversion is done by a command set by
> the Mailman site administrator. The default command is
>
> HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/lynx -dump %(filename)s'
>
> which may not work on all systems.
>