Bob Escher wrote: > >How do I allow attachments and html >to be allowed through? >Last week we had a list member send pdf >and they did get through. > >Or if someone does a nice document in Word >with graphics how can it be allowed to go through >with everything intact >
I suggest you look at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html These documents point out among other things that not everyone has the same software, not everyone wants or is able to read arbitrary attachments, and MS-Word is a particularly bad choice of format to use to exchange formatted text. If you still want to allow MS-Word and other attachments on your list, recognize that the two reasons they don't go through are maximum message size and content filtering. Your max message size must be sufficient to accept the messages you want. Since most attachments will be base64 encoded and base64 encoding requires a little more than 4 message bytes to represent each 3 bytes of the attachment, your max message size needs to be about 1.4 times the size of the largest attachment you expect plus enough extra to allow for the headers, text and possibly HTML that goes with it. Then you either have to be sure content filtering is off or adjusted to accept the content-types you want to allow. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/