Thank you, Mark, for all your responses. I had originally thought I should have
the list be able to convert to plain text, but then decided it would be ok to
let messages go through as html. But I still wanted it to strip attachments.
I added text/html to the list, and set the bottom two things to "no" and now it
is working -- I received the whole message with html, with no funny complaints about not
being allowed, and it successfully stripped the test pdf and doc attachments I sent.
Ruth
On 1/17/11 12:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Ruth Indeck wrote:
Question: Why doesn't Mailman convert the html to plaintext on its own?
The intro to Content Management says:
Finally, any text/html parts that are left in the message may be converted to
text/plain if
convert_html_to_plaintext<https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/admin/peoplesvoicecafe/contentfilter?VARHELP=contentfilter/convert_html_to_plaintext>
is enabled and the site is configured to allow these conversions.
I have "convert to text/plain" enabled.
There are no HTML parts left after filtering because text/html is not
in pass_mime_types.
What does the second part mean? How do you configure your site to allow these
conversions? Is it something a regular administrator could do, or is it
something that the host site of my Mailman list has to do?
It means the HTML to plain text conversion is done by a command set by
the Mailman site administrator. The default command is
HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/lynx -dump %(filename)s'
which may not work on all systems.
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