Re: [Mailman-Users] Handling Attachments and More
David Andrews wrote: I have a Sun Cobalt RAQ550 with Mailman 2.1.8 installed, and running about 120 lists. We were having problems with the setup handling multi-part messages that contained text and html -- some mail programs reproduced stuff twice etc. Also we need to pass attachments. On the advice of someone I made some changes, content filtering settings below, and while the multi-part thing is a little better, it only passes text attachments. Need to pass .doc etc. I am obviously not an expert in this stuff, or I wouldn't be bothering all of you. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Your copy/paste of the web page is missing some information, namely, which radio buttons are selected. Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? [...] No Yes I assume this is Yes Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. [...] text/html Generally, you don't want entries in both filter_mime_types and pass_mime_types, since if you have anything in pass_mime_types, everything else will be filtered whether it's here or not. Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. [...] multipart/alternative message/rfc822 text/plain So you are accepting only elemental text/plain messages and text/plain parts from multipart/alternative parts. This drops everything that isn't text/plain and also drops text/plain subparts from other multipart types. For example, if you have a message with structure multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain text/html application/msword which is a common structure for a message with an attached ms-word file, you delete everything because you don't accept multipart/mixed. What you probably want here is something like multipart message/rfc822 text/plain application/msword application/pdf (etc.) Remove message attachments that have a matching filename extension. [...] exe bat cmd com pif scr vbs cpl OK [...] Should Mailman collapse multipart/alternative to its first part content? [...] No Yes This is probably irrelevant in most cases if you don't accept text/html, but unless you want to actuall accept and pass say both text/plain and text/html alternatives, set this to Yes. Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped. [...] No Yes This should be Yes, only if you accept text/html, and you set collapse_alternatives to Yes, and you want remaining html parts converted to plain text. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Handling Attachments and More
I have a Sun Cobalt RAQ550 with Mailman 2.1.8 installed, and running about 120 lists. We were having problems with the setup handling multi-part messages that contained text and html -- some mail programs reproduced stuff twice etc. Also we need to pass attachments. On the advice of someone I made some changes, content filtering settings below, and while the multi-part thing is a little better, it only passes text attachments. Need to pass .doc etc. I am obviously not an expert in this stuff, or I wouldn't be bothering all of you. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_content (Edit filter_contenthttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_content) No Yes Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_mime_types (Details for filter_mime_typeshttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_mime_types) text/html Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/pass_mime_types (Details for pass_mime_typeshttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/pass_mime_types) multipart/alternative message/rfc822 text/plain Remove message attachments that have a matching filename extension. http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_filename_extensions (Edit filter_filename_extensionshttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_filename_extensions) exe bat cmd com pif scr vbs cpl Remove message attachments that don't have a matching filename extension. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/pass_filename_extensions (Edit pass_filename_extensionshttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/pass_filename_extensions) Should Mailman collapse multipart/alternative to its first part content? http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/collapse_alternatives (Edit collapse_alternativeshttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/collapse_alternatives) No Yes Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped. http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/convert_html_to_plaintext (Edit convert_html_to_plaintexthttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/convert_html_to_plaintext) No Yes Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules. http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_action (Details for filter_actionhttp://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/admin/nfb-talk/?VARHELP=contentfilter/filter_action) Discard Reject Forward to List Owner Preserve -- 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
