[Mailman-Users] Blank emails due to convert_html_to_plaintext

[Michael Bakonyi]

Hi Mark,

thanks a lot for responding so quickly!

> It should be on the content filtering page just above the "convert_html_to_plaintext" setting.

Nope, in my case there's pass_mime_types.

>> I don't have access to any
>> configuration-files as it's a Mailman-instance of a shared hoster.
> 
> You will have to contact the host. HTML to plaintext conversion is done by the configured HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND (default lynx). There will be errors in Mailman's error log. Whatever the configured command is, it isn't working.

Well the conversion works in general – only with some mails of some senders there seems to be a problem. Alright, I'll contact the hoster, thanks for your feedback!

Cheers,
Michael



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> Am 09.04.2018/ 15 um 15:21 schrieb Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>:
> 
> On April 8, 2018 5:08:49 AM PDT, Michael Bakonyi <kontakt at michaelbakonyi.de> wrote:
>> 
>> I administer a list, where emails by some senders (e.g. the german
>> mass-mailprovider GMX)  arrive with a stripped message (but existing
>> Mailman-footer) due to convert_html_to_plaintext enabled.
> ...
>> I don't see the option "collapse multipart/alternative" anywhere (which
>> is mentioned in other threads regarding empty mails) so I guess it's an
>> older version of Mailman.
> 
> 
> It should be on the content filtering page just above the "convert_html_to_plaintext" setting.
> 
> 
>> I don't have access to any
>> configuration-files as it's a Mailman-instance of a shared hoster.
> 
> 
> You will have to contact the host. HTML to plaintext conversion is done by the configured HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND (default lynx). There will be errors in Mailman's error log. Whatever the configured command is, it isn't working.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
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