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Re: accepting a subset of HTML mail in sourceware lists
On 09/23/2017 06:16 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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?
Please go back to rejecting them.
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Cheers,
Carlos.