"David W. Tamkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michelle asked,
>
> | I would love to have a service that allowed someone to send email to
> | an address, and have it reply back with a message saying whether it
> | was a plain text message or not (easier part) and a temporary URL
> | which presents the message in raw form so the person can see what
> | their message looks like to non-html mailers (harder part).
>
> It would be fairly easy to set up an autoresponder in procmail that extracts
> any header lines beginning "Content-" or "MIME-", indents the entire body by
> one space to prevent MIME-interpretation of the separators and the parts'
> inner headers when it gets back to the tester, and changes the inequality
> signs to, say, braces to prevent HTML-rendering when it gets back to the
> tester.
Good idea. That may be enough.
> However, there still is the concern Charlie brought up that people will do
> it right in their test messages and then do it wrong a moment later when
> they post. I was thinking that one way to get around that is to recommend
> that they carbon or blind-carbon the testing address on their submissions.
Possibly. The reason I asked is that I have two AOL 6.0 subscribers
who are making a good faith effort to figure out how to send
plain text. They asked if there was a way they could test it out and
see the result (delays in the mailing list make sending a posting and
seeing if it gets through not a good way).
I do bounce non plain text mail back with an explanation already. So,
if they forget to send plain text, they can fix it once they've
figured out how to do it successfully.
I did look into demime in the past, can't recall why I didn't use it
(maybe my perl is too old on the mailing list server?). I will take
another look. But, I plan to switch to Mailman in the near future and
while I see there is demime patch, there is not one for the latest
version of Mailman (or wasn't when I checked). I don't know python
yet. In my case, I am not at all cpu-limited on the mailing list
server, far from it.
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Michelle Dick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
