On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> 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. > that's good to know. however, in my case, this would not have been possible. > 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. > thanks for detailed explanation. makes perfect sense. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
