On 10/07/2014 06:02 AM, Peter Wetz wrote: > UPDATE: lynx was missing on the machine mailman was running on. since i > don't have root access (or at least i could not find out on my own, if > lynx is running), it was quite hard for me to figure that one out. just > after i read that some others on this list had problems with "blank > messages in the archive after conversion of html to plain-text mails", i > think this was something worth to investigate.
If you have access to Mailman's logs, you would see errors about this in Mailman's 'error' log. > so now that lynx is installed and running, the html-to-plain-text > conversion works. Good. N.B. I use elinks by setting HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND = '/usr/bin/elinks -dump %(filename)s' in mm_cfg.py. I like the plain text conversion a bit better. > one final question: since this requires content filtering to be turned > on, i basically have to whitelist all mime-types i want to let through. > is that right? It depends what you want to do. If you want to pass everything and just do the html to plaintext conversion, you can set all 4 of filter_mime_types, pass_mime_types, filter_filename_extensions and pass_filename_extensions empty. Then nothing will be removed based on MIME type or filename extension. Otherwise, you can either blacklist or whitelist using filter_mime_types or pass_mime_types respectively. The filters are applied in the following order. If filter_mime_types is non-empty, any part with MIME type in filter_mime_types is removed. Then, if pass_mime_types is non-empty, any part with MIME type NOT in pass_mime_types is removed. Then the filename_extensions tests are applied in the same order to parts that have an associated filename. Note also that entries in *_mime_types can be either 'maintype' or 'maintype/subtype' (as in e.g., 'image' or 'image/jpeg'). If it is just 'maintype' it will match all parts with that maintype regardless of subtype. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
