Supporting multipart/alternative email with text/plain parts.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> The sourceware.org ezmlm-idx configuration for this mailing list
> does not allow text/html email.
>
> 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.
>
> Just to clarify, the list itself will only record and mail out the
> text/plain part of the incoming email.
>
> I will keep the list updated on the progress.

I have received one positive response from overseers
but no specific commitment to act on the request.

I have pinged overseers again for comment.

Cheers,
Carlos.