Re: accepting a subset of HTML mail in sourceware lists

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at sourceware dot org>]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 04:26:52AM -0400, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
>Ok, I know this is anathema, but could a case be made to allow certain
>HTML mail to the lists?
>
>The gmail app on phones, at least on Android, cannot turn off HTML
>mail, which makes it impossible for good netizens to reply to mail
>destined to the GCC lists.  An argument could be made for faster patch
>approval if our glorious maintainers could be allowed to review
>patches from say, the privacy of their own bathrooms :).
>
>I know there is a long standing tradition of refusing HTML mail, but
>can this issue be revisited under certain circumstances?  For
>instance, AFAICT, my phone spits out a perfectly legitimate text/plain
>part in the HTML message, which I'm pretty sure we could use as is,
>and strip the rest of the multipart HTML nonsense.
>
>For instance, a recently refused message from my phone has:
>
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;  boundary="001a113ce67662c2d70558f97fb8"
>
>--001a113ce67662c2d70558f97fb8
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
><...Lots of simple plain text following...>
>
>Seeing that we're collectively moving to reading/writing mail in
>phones and other HTML only devices, is this something that can be
>considered, or are things not as simple as removing/refusing the non
>text/plain parts of an HTML message?

I've just modified the mailing list software to strip html attachments.
This is the only list I follow on sourceware anymore so please send email
here if this causes a problem.

One foreseeable problem is that there could be messages showing up now
which consist of nothing but a blank or unhelpful text part.

cgf