Rueben wrote: >I don't understand your answer.
Apparently because you don't understand MIME. You could start at <http://www.imc.org/rfcs.html#mime>, but that probably isn't the easiest way to learn these things. In my explanation below, indententation is the key. When I wrote for example multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain text/html application/msword I was indication a message with content-type multipart/mixed which consisted of two sub-parts of types multipart/alternative and application/msword, and the multipart/alternative sub-part in turn contained text/plain and text/html alternative sub-parts You may also be interested in <http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/> which is a list of registered MIME types for various content. >Let me ask it differently. > >What would the mime types look like if I wanted to allow attachments for PDF >and image files? Pass mime types might contain multipart message/rfc822 text/plain image application/pdf Line by line, the reasons are 1. If you don't accept multipart then the only messages you accept will be single part messages which by definition do not have attachments. 2. Accepting message/rfc822 is not manditory, but if someone forwards a message as an attachment, and you want to at least consider the parts of the attached message, you need this. 3. This is to accept plain text message bodies and attachments. 4. This will accept all 'image' content-types. if you want to be more selective you could accept, e.g., just image/jpeg, image/gif and image/png by listing those instead of the blanket 'image' (refer to the media types list referenced above). 5. This will accept PDF. >Would it be any different if I wanted to allow html links to other websites? If you want to allow html parts, you have to add text/html to the above list. I'm not sure what you mean by "html links to other websites". I included two URLs above in this text/plain message. Some MUAs (mail clients) may render these as clickable links. Others may not. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Rueben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mailman-user" ><mailman-users@python.org> >Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:11 AM >Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] pass mime types > > >> Rueben wrote: >> >>>Under content filtering there is a field labeled: Remove message >>>attachments that don't have a matching content type. >>> >>>In the box I have: >>>multipart/mixed >>>multipart/alternative >>>text/plain >>> >>>Can someone explain what each of those entries means, and give examples as >>>to what kind of files would be affected by each filter? >> >> >> Those entries are the MIME content types that content filtering will >> accept. Any message part with a content-type other that those three >> will be filtered out. For example, in a message with the following >> structure >> >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain >> text/html >> >> The multipart/alternative part will be accepted and it's sub-parts >> examined. Of those, only the text/plain part will be accepted and the >> text/html part will be removed. >> >> For this message >> >> multipart/mixed >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain >> text/html >> application/msword >> >> again, only the text/plain part will be accepted and the text/html and >> application/msword parts will be removed. >> >> For this message >> >> multipart/related >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain >> text/html >> image/jpeg >> >> nothing will be accepted because the entire multipart/related message >> content type is not accepted. -- 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
