Hello,
..thanks again for all the pointers to MTML and MIME
stripping tools.
Took a look at demime and really liked it, but it's not
exactly what I need for my purpose (and imagine could be
useful for some other lists, too). Cool Tool to tame a
bunch of MIME enabled kids, though!
To give you an idea of what this is about, I'll paste the
"Scope" paragraph from the webpage that I've set up on
http://oesterhelt.dyndns.org/majordomo.html , from where
the patch can also be downloaded:
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Scope
This tries to be a lightweight, minimal-impact, (new)user-friendly
solution for the problem of HTML formatted postings to (technical)
mailing lists running on Majordomo.
It's lightweight in that it doesn't require setting up new mail pipes,
or any other (per-list) action on the side of the majordomo owner.
Policy can be set by the list-owner, using majordomo's config /
newconfig mechanism. Since it's fully integrated into majordomo's
resend, no addidtional processes are involved for mail filtering.
Also, since it uses Modules for most of the work, it's only 140 lines
of additional code.
It hopes to have minimal impact on list communication, since it leaves
all MIME types except text/html and multipart/alternative alone. So
while it takes care of typical thought- or clueless postings from
HTML-enabled MUAs (whose users might not even realize what they're
sending), it will not prevent people from attaching HTML or other
data if they feel the need to do so.
If you're looking for a comprehensive, full-featured MIME flattener,
you should go for Nick Simicich's demime script.
Finally, it tries to be (new)user-friendly in how it handles HTML
messages. The sender will either see his message on the list (albeit
stripped of it's fancy formatting) or receive his message back, along
with a polite note that HTML messages are not accepted on the list and
will at least notice that it didn't get through. Either way, nobody is
taken their opportunity to participate.
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I would be very thankful if some people could take the
time and test it out. Sure there are some bugs to fix,
before it can be used on "production" mailing lists.
Regards,
--Andreas
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