[Bug Infrastructure/29713] Please make libc-alpha mailing list compatible with “git am”

[mark at klomp dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29713

--- Comment #20 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> ---
(In reply to joseph@codesourcery.com from comment #19)
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022, mark at klomp dot org via Overseers wrote:
> 
> > It would be good if there was a way to reject emails containing text/html.
> 
> At least for some lists, accepting them is deliberate, to avoid losing 
> contributions by placing requirement on email formatting that are 
> problematic for many users nowadays.

Sad, but true. So if we want to accept them and keep DKIM signatures correct
then we'll need to turn off content filtering, because stripping text/html
parts or turning them into plain text will alter the message body.

> > Also public-inbox won't archive them (which is already a problem, 
> > because inbox sees the messages before the text/html part is stripped).
> 
> That's clearly a bug in our public-inbox configuration.  Since we're 
> deliberate accepting text/html we should set up our archiving to handle 
> messages using it.

Lets open a separate bug for that. This is a design choice of public-inbox:

  To discourage phishing, trackers, exploits and other nuisances,
  only plain-text emails are allowed and HTML is rejected by default.
  This improves accessibility, and saves bandwidth and storage
  as mail is archived forever.

We have other archives of course, the messages are in the mailman archives, but
it would be good to see what we can do for the public-inbox archives. Will
discuss with the upstream project.

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