Re: Stripping multipart/alternative messages and accepting thetext/plain part.

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

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> On 02/27/2012 12:52 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah - the linked-to page [0] gives good reasons for not allowing
> arbitrary HTML in email. ?However. HTML has many benefits [1],
> and if you restricting yourself to a safe-and-sane" subset of HTML [2]
> then I don't think the reasons in [0] are valid [3].
>
> This is similar to blog sites that allow comments in a restricted
> subset of HTML. ?With just a Small Matter of Programming [4], we
> should allow the same.

Though I agree with many of your points,
my goal today is not to tackle such a broad problem.

My goal today is to see if we can enable a volunteer
to contribute to a software project whose mailing
list is hosted on sourceware.org. This particular
volunteer sends multipart/alternative messages which
include both text/html and test/plain parts.

In summary:
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Can the mailing list manager, ezmlm-idx, be configured
to accept multipart/alternative message formats and
strip out the text/html parts while allowing through
the text/plain parts?

e.g. Use DIR/mimeremove?
http://www.de.ezmlm.org/faq/FAQ-9.html#mimeremove

This would make posting to the mailing list "Just work"
for mail clients that produce multipart/alternative
messages like those messages product by GMail in rich
text mode.

Cheers,
Carlos.