Plain text email is ONE thing that all computers and computer users understand.
Not everyone uses email clients that are webified. As such, you have choices
with your majordomo installation. Enforce plain text mail by using tools such
as demime in front of your list, and maintain peace and harmony across ALL your
list members, or allow HTML messages in your list realizing that footers will
not show up because majordomo doesn't MIME, and some members will complain of
seeing HTML junk/garbage tags in their plain text mail reader. Better yet,
since this is an often asked question, write a patch or plugin to majordomo
fronter/footer code so it can be MIME aware, but this does not solve the issue
of users without HTML capable mail clients.
Dan Liston
Adam Meijer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We use Majordomo 1.94.4. to manage a mailing list at work. To view the mailing
> list email at home I use Outlook Express.
> I have included a message_footer in the config file of the mailing list, and it
> works well when sending mail in plain text format to the mailing list. When
> sending mail in HTML format to the mailing list the message is displayed but the
> footer is not displayed, whereas it is in the actual file (viewed in properties,
> details, message source).
>
> A mail made up in HTML and sent to the mailing list and viewed in properties,
> details, message source, looks like this:
>
> >>>>>
> ------=_NextPart_000_006E_01C160B7.561E6A00
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> plain text
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_006E_01C160B7.561E6A00
> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> HTML text
>
> ------=_NextPart_000_006E_01C160B7.561E6A00--
>
> message footer
> >>>>>
>
> Is there any possibility to make the footer visible when sending mail in HTML
> format to the mailing list? Or is something missing in the part of the
> message_footer, like Content-Type, charset, and, Content-Transfer-Encoding?
> Should Majordomo include these items in the message footer part when receiving a
> mail in HTML format?
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
>
> Adam Meijer
> owner-baruch@smra.nl
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