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Re: accepting a subset of HTML mail in sourceware lists
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:11:44PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>On Sep 22, 2017 11:09, "Joseph Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
>On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> On 09/15/2017 09:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Thanks for doing this.
>>
>> I just verified that it works for libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
>
>Actually it seems the HTML part got through to the list as well as the
>plain text part.
>
>
>Oh my. I had not bothered to check the final content. I just verified that
>I saw plaim text.
It looks like I can't strip html attachments from moderated mailing
lists using this method. I'll have to make another change for moderated
mailing lists.
Should I, for now, allow the html attachments or go back to rejecting
them?
cgf