I have read through the FAQ and tried to locate every piece of information I could about MIME types and attachments, esp. reading 4.39, and I'm still confused, so am hoping that others can provide some simple clarification.
What I'd like to do: 1) Prevent all attachments from going through. (Note that if my settings below are too broad and will result in rejecting messages that aren't really attachments, let me know.) 2) Accept html, or real text format formatted messages without translating them to plain text. However, if this means that other formats such as pdf, word, etc., would also have to be accepted, than I'd give up on html. 3) Send a notice automatically to a sender if their attachment has been rejected. 4) Send the remaining plain text part of the message to the list without the attachment. My current 'Content Filtering' options (see below) are rejecting attachments and html-formatted messages. The entire message is rejected -- even if there are remaining plain text parts. RTF formatted messages are, however, converted to plain text. No notice of a rejection is sent to the poster, so I've configured the last option to send the message to the e-list owner, so that the owner could manually notify users. Note that I don't seem to have access to the unix shell. My current list Content Filtering options are as follows: Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? -- Yes Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. <none listed> Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. -- I've listed two types -- text/plain <and, on a separate line> text/html Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? No Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules. Forward to List Owner Thank you for any clarification! ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
