From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3810 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2012 15:46:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 3633 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Mar 2012 15:46:45 -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-pz0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-pz0-f41.google.com) (209.85.210.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:46:31 +0000 Received: by dadv6 with SMTP id v6so4078347dad.0 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:46:30 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.219.102 with SMTP id pn6mr13496935pbc.103.1331480790707; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.71.233 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:46:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 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/msg00085.txt.bz2 On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > 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? Has any more thought been given to this topic? I would like to see progress on this issue since it impacts the participation of new volunteers in our community. Comments? Cheers, Carlos.