Re: accepting a subset of HTML mail in sourceware lists

[Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>]

Sweet!  Thanks!

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 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