[Mailman-Users] Change hundreds of digest subscribers to non-digest

[Jeff Pflueger]

Thanks for any help on this.
We have a mailman list set-up as a newsletter type list.
We'd like to send basic html formatted email.
This seems to work seamlessly for regular subscribers - they receive the
html email that was sent.
However, digest subscribers get a message about the html being
scrubbed and are provided with a link to view the message - not good
at all.

So I'd like to resolve this problem by either
1 - Disabling the digest option (easy) and then changing all the
digest subscribers to regular subscribers (this appears to be
difficult - doing it by hand would be impossible - big list) How does
one do this?

2 - Somehow prevent the digests from scrubbing html

Any help would be great!  Thanks.

Jeff

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Change hundreds of digest subscribers to non-digest

[Brad Knowles]

At 8:58 AM -0800 2/13/07, Jeff Pflueger wrote:

  So I'd like to resolve this problem by either
  1 - Disabling the digest option (easy) and then changing all the
  digest subscribers to regular subscribers (this appears to be
  difficult - doing it by hand would be impossible - big list) How does
  one do this?

Use withlist.  There are plenty of examples in the FAQ Wizard and 
the archives.

  2 - Somehow prevent the digests from scrubbing html

That's not really feasible.  The problem is that the process of 
creating the digest does all sorts of things to the message which is 
not compatible with HTML.  So, while you technically could change the 
source code in your version of Mailman to remove the Scrubber 
component from the digest process, the result simply wouldn't work.


Moreover, Mailman usually does a *lot* of things to messages as they 
are passing through, and even if you go out of your way to avoid most 
of them, you're still gambling that the input HTML will be formatted 
in such a way that the minimal modifcations won't hopelessly screw it 
up beyond recognition.

That's a pretty big bet.

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