David Andrews wrote: >I got the below message from a user, and am not quite sure what to do? Any >advice? > >>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:30:29 -0600 >>From: "T. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: HTML filter on the lists >> >>The filter you are using on text/html messages to the list really is very, >>very broken. First, it leaves parts of the HTML behind. Second, it lies >>about its output, claiming that all messages are now us-ascii (which >>breaks character set conversion tools which need to know the original >>character set in order to map to the correct one.)
Presumably the issue here is the conversion done by Content filtering -> convert_html_to_plaintext. The simplest solution is just to set this to 'No' and allow the HTML to go to the list unchanged, but you may not want to allow 'non-defanged' HTML or any HTML at all on your list. Another solution is to remove text/html from the MIME types allowed on your list and thus force your members to post plain text or at least multipart/alternative. See <http://www.expita.com/nomime.html>. If you want to continue to convert HTML to plaintext, there are a few issues. You don't say what Mailman version this is, but from your user's complaint, it seems it is pre-2.1.7. In versions prior to 2.1.7, HTML that was quoted-printable or base64 encoded was not decoded prior to passing to HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND which caused many problems. If this is the issue, you need to upgrade. Beyond that, the default for HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND is '/usr/bin/lynx -dump %(filename)s'. This may not be appropriate. Redefining this in mm_cfg.py to the command suggested by your user may or may not be a solution because of the way Mailman/Handlers/MimeDel.py resets the converted payload -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
