Newman, Linda (newmanld) wrote: >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.)
See below. > 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. It doesn't, you can do it - except see below regarding multipart/alternative. > 3) Send a notice automatically to a sender if their attachment has been >rejected. I don't think you can do this if the whole message is not rejected. > 4) Send the remaining plain text part of the message to the list without >the attachment. You can do this, but I don't think you can get a reject notice to the poster in this case. >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. This will only work if the entire message is filtered and nothing is left for the list. >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 Right. >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 This won't work. It's too restrictive it will only allow single part messages whose content-type is text/html or text/plain. You also need to allow the text/plain and/or text/html parts from multipart messages. Thus you must add to the above types multipart/mixed multipart/alternative Also, you may wish to add message/rfc822 to allow text/plain and text/html parts from some forwarded messages. Note that allowing these types does not allow the entire multipart through, it just alows its sub-parts to be examined rather than deleted. Further, note that if the message contains a multipart/alternative part with both a text/plain alternative and a text/html alternative, only the first alternative which is always supposed to be the text/plain part. To get HTML through to the list you either have to disallow text/plain or make sure the HTML is not in a multipart/alternative part with a text/plain alternative. This is difficult if not impossible to do with some MUAs. >Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? No Good. >Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules. Forward >to List Owner See above. -- 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/