Attachment test.

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:29:25PM -0700,
>Bill Campbell took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> I am sending this message from Apple's Mail.app with the compose option
>> set to use ``rich text'' which should result in a multi-part text/html message.
>> 
>> I want to see if it strips off the HTML section into an attachment.
>
>Can we just put in a procmail rule to dump main header content types
>text/html and mixed/alternative to /dev/null?  :)

I don't use procmail, much preferring Chip Salzenberg's deliver.

That's irrelevant with Mailman as it handles everything itself.

>If there's an image involved, that -should- be only multipart/mixed.  The
>alternative subtype is -supposed- to be only when one part is an
>alternative for another.

Should implies standards-compliant mail agents.  They're getting
better than they have been in the past.

>I suppose I don't care as much about alternative, but the html-only should
>just be tossed, IMNSHO.  My $0.02.

It will be interesting to see what happens to these with the
setting I changed this afternoon.

>Neat feature on the attachments, btw.

The horde/imp webmail can do much the same thing, and I normally
configure it to handle attachments as links without offering a
choice to the user.  Doing it in Mailman though doesn't require
any action on the part of the sender which makes it useful
without requiring any thought on their part.

Bill
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