From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31974 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2012 20:52:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 31967 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Feb 2012 20:52:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_ZM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-yx0-f169.google.com) (209.85.213.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:52:40 +0000 Received: by yenm8 with SMTP id m8so111130yen.0 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of patofiero@gmail.com designates 10.236.170.134 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.236.170.134; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of patofiero@gmail.com designates 10.236.170.134 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=patofiero@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=patofiero@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.236.170.134]) by 10.236.170.134 with SMTP id p6mr24091198yhl.81.1330375959954 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:52:39 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.170.134 with SMTP id p6mr18049320yhl.81.1330375959907; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.146.84.1 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:52:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Stripping multipart/alternative messages and accepting the text/plain part. From: "Carlos O'Donell" To: overseers@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q1/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 Dear Overseers, I know that @sourceware.org doesn't support receiving HTML email to the mailing lists. I have read the reasons in the FAQ. It would seem that ezmlm can strip out MIME parts from multipart MIME messages. Some mail clients use `multipart/alternative' to send both plain text and html versions of the same message. On many lists this is considered annoying and wasteful (messages are usually 2-3 times as large). You can have ezmlm remove the html part from such messages by adding the line ``text/html'' to DIR/mimeremove. Currently I'm told that the mailing lists are rejecting such multipart/alternative emails entirely. This is sad because we are loosing volunteers because of it. We should be supporting such emails by stripping the text/html via the ezmlm configure option. Doing so would allow us to open our mailing lists to an even wider audience. Is this possible? Cheers, Carlos.