On Apr 15, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Con Wieland wrote: > >> I am having trouble understanding what is going on with the >> attachments and archives. I have a message being sent to the list >> that appears to be text with a pdf attachment. With Mac mail I >> receive it as expected showing both the text and the attachment. When >> I go to the archives though I get the message text plus >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ >> 20080415/846539df/attachment-0002.html >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: jeffrey_vallance.pdf >> Type: application/pdf >> Size: 161144 bytes >> Desc: not available >> Url : http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ >> 20080415/846539df/attachment-0001.pdf >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ >> 20080415/846539df/attachment-0003.html > > > So, it looks like the message structure is something like > > multipart/mixed > multipart/alternative > text/plain (the plain text you see in the archive) > text/html (the html version which is > attachment-0002.html in the archive) > application/pdf (the pdf attachment which is > attachment-0001.pdf in the archive) > text/html (appears to be a (empty) footer added > probably by the sender's MUA. This > is attachment-0003.html in the archive) > > > >> My questions are, why am I getting the html attachments? > > > Because the sender's MUA is sending them and your content filtering is > either not on or is not removing HTML and not collapsing alternatives.
Correct it was not on for this example but when I turn it on and select: Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. text/ html I lose the pdf too. How can I configure it to just remove the text/ html and leave the text/plain and application/pdf ? > >> and why >> are they jibberish? > > > They are not gibberish. They are HTML shown to you as raw rather than > rendered HTML. Yes, gibberish was not the right word. But why aren't they rendered when I click on the link. I am used to just being able to open the link and have them rendered. con > > The attachment-0002.html appears to be an announcement for "Beyond > Field: A Guide Through Practice and Discipline" which is what I assume > the original plain text is too. If you visit that link > (<http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/test/attachments/ > 20080415/846539df/attachment-0002.html>, > and copy the text and paste it into a file named xxx.html and open > that file in a web browser, you'll see a rendered version which is > probably what you saw in your mail client rather than the plain text. > > > -- > 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
