Stripping multipart/alternative messages and accepting the text/plain part.

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

Dear Overseers,

I know that @sourceware.org doesn't support receiving
HTML email to the mailing lists. I have read the reasons
in the FAQ.

It would seem that ezmlm can strip out MIME
parts from multipart MIME messages. Some mail
clients use `multipart/alternative' to send both
plain text and html versions of the same message.
On many lists this is considered annoying and
wasteful (messages are usually 2-3 times as large).
You can have ezmlm remove the html part from such
messages by adding the line ``text/html'' to
DIR/mimeremove.

Currently I'm told that the mailing lists are rejecting
such multipart/alternative emails entirely. This is
sad because we are loosing volunteers because of it.

We should be supporting such emails by stripping
the text/html via the ezmlm configure option.

Doing so would allow us to open our mailing lists to
an even wider audience.

Is this possible?

Cheers,
Carlos.