[BLU/Officers] WIND mailing list question

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/25/2012 12:00 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> Fred Nothnagel CC:ed me on a reply to a user who was upset because her
> time-sensitive email was blocked because it was in HTML instead of plain
> text.  In his reply, he said
>
> "Just so you know, the text-only policy is from our host, the Boston
> Linux Users Group, which hosts several other listservices and has
> enforced that policy to protect its own servers and the listservs they
> host.  If I had approved your post, it would have been rejected by the
> server without much explanation."
>
> I don't think that's the case.  The email being in HTML could never hurt
> our servers.  I don't know if he was just saying that to shut her up or
> if he really believes it, but if it is his preference to allow HTML
> emails, would you all be OK with it?
>
> Is the filtering done via the PASS_MIME_TYPES configuration?  It looks so.
>
> I propose adding JUST text/html and no other mime types.  No other
> attachments, or attached images or other attachments.  Is everyone OK
> with that?
The test/html issue is a list-owner option. We have several lists that
have html turned on. In content filtering, set these to no:

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


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

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