Supporting multipart/alternative email with text/plain parts.

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:50:24 -0500, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> The sourceware.org ezmlm-idx configuration for this mailing list
> does not allow text/html email.

For uniformity, I think we should have the same setting for all mailing
lists.

> I have been contacted by people who would like to volunteer and
> participate on this list but are currently sending multipart/alternative
> emails (text/html and text/plain) and being rejected by the
> mailing list software.
> 
> In a desire to see volunteers of every kind participate in the
> community I have reached out to overseers to change the ezmlm-idx
> configuration to support multipart/alterjative where there is a
> minimum of a text/plain part in the alternatives list.
> 
> This would allow broader support for:
> 
> * volunteers who are using the default GMail setup which sends
> multipart/alternative with both text/html and text/plain portions.
> 
> * volunteers who genuinely like formatted email.

I agree that we should allow the kind of email you describe.

> Just to clarify, the list itself will only record and mail out the
> text/plain part of the incoming email.

However, I'm not a fan of email munging by mailing list software.
Parsing and recombining complicated MIME data structures is always
error-prone.  Either pass it through unmodified, or reject it.  What's
the concern here?  Some extra bits of traffic?


Grüße,
 Thomas
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