From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11318 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2012 22:58:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 11308 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Mar 2012 22:58:51 -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 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-pz0-f54.google.com) (209.85.210.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:58:36 +0000 Received: by dald2 with SMTP id d2so1728859dal.13 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:58:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.230.230 with SMTP id tb6mr688799pbc.40.1331679515876; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.71.233 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:58:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F5D3A09.9090806@jifvik.org> References: <20120311183254.GA13084@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4F5D3A09.9090806@jifvik.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Stripping multipart/alternative messages and accepting the text/plain part. From: "Carlos O'Donell" To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: 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/msg00096.txt.bz2 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > On 11/03/12 22:10, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> >> Comments on allowing HTML email? > > I thought I, for one, tackled the main issues as part of here: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/overseers/2012-q1/msg00070.html I am not on the overseers mailing list and your reply did not include my email (and I did not consider that I should be reading the list). Thank you for following up with a summary. Could you please comment on the strategy of using DIR/mimeremove to allow legitimate use of multipart/alternative email that has a minimum of a text/plain part? Think of text/plain as a "safe" rendering of the text/html part that users send and therefore acceptable to the list as a whole, while still keeping out the spammers that send only html email. So far I see the following consensus: * Per Bothner - General agreement that HTML email has some benefit. No direct comment on DIR/mimeremove. * Christopher Faylor - Not keen on DIR/mimeremove for reasons of stripping html attachments, but not explicitly against the idea. * Frank Ch. Eigler - Considers DIR/mimeremove sensible. * Jonathan Larmour - No comment on DIR/mimeremove. I would like to reach the conclusion that either: (a) The lists will *not* support multipart/alternative text/plain, and why. (b) The lists *will* accept only the text/plain portion of a multipart/alternative. Knowing either (a) or (b) will allow me to communicate expectations to our volunteers and allow them to take action accordingly. I started this conversation with the hope that we might agree to (b) and I still consider it a valid outcome. Cheers, Carlos.