[Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

[Ben Gertzfield]

Kevin McCann wrote:

>Thanks, Ben. I had initially been thinking this was strictly an Outlook
>problem, too. But I became skeptical as I realised that there are still two
>big questions:
>
>1) Why do these same Outlook clients not have problems receiving
>attachment-less messages with footers from other MLMs such as Lyris? (I run
>hundreds of lists on Lyris and a handful on Mailman and I only have problems
>with Mailman).
>

I'll go out on a limb and guess that Lyris doesn't have Mailman's level 
of internationalization support.  If you turn a blind eye to the fact 
that there are messages with character sets other than us-ascii out 
there, you  can do all sorts of horrible things to messages by blindly 
adding on random text to the end of messages.

As a test, though, is there any way you could forward to us messages 
sent through Lyris that are:

1) Content-Type: text/html
2) Content-Type: multipart/* with text/html and text/plain parts
3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 or some other non-ISO-8859-1 
character set

that have footers attached to the mails?  I'd love to see what tactics 
they take in each of these cases.

>2) Similarly, why do other Mailman installations send the mail to these same
>mail clients without problems?
>

It's probably going to depend on the configuration of the client that is 
sending the mail to Mailman in the first place.  If the client sends out 
text/plain mail, Mailman can attach the footer with no problem.  But if 
it's text/html, Mailman has to attach the footer separately; there's 
just no other way to do it.

I'm not sure what would happen with a multipart mail if Mailman directly 
added the footer underneath the final body part.  I assume if the 
charsets matched, it might show  up, but I'm not 100% certain.

Ben