Attachment test.

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010, Brian K. White wrote:
>On 3/22/2010 6:03 PM, 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?  :)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I suppose I don't care as much about alternative, but the html-only should
>> just be tossed, IMNSHO.  My $0.02.
>
>I think html provides a valuable feature in an ideal and non-heinous way 
>to dumb clients that don't support it, much as mime-formatting does.
>
>The fact that some people, even most people, abuse html in a way that is 
>heinous to almost everything and everyone involved with the handling of 
>that mail, is not html's fault, and I don't see why responsible users 
>should be penalized by being denied the functionality.
>
>Unless you are just saying that the rule here has been stated as plain 
>text and so, since that's the rule, there is no possible harm to any 
>legitimate messages or users in simply enforcing it? I can only weakly 
>argue with that if that has ever actually been asserted as a hard rule. 
>I can argue pretty strongly against zero-tolerance in almost any context 
>in general and in this context in particular.

We have never said that the list is plain-text only, and I don't
think the option I set today will strip html from messages.  I
could well be wrong about that, and won't know until somebody
tries posting something.

On the other hand, I don't often use a mail client that's real
happy with html, and the fancy formatting often makes things
difficult to read (and I'm an order of magnitude less blind than
John Esak as I only have a -19.5 diopter correction).

One factor that people should consider is that html-only messages
generally result in high spamassassin scores so may well be
dropped if their score is too high or delayed as they get sent
for moderation.  When recruiters ask about posting to several
user group's jobs mailing lists we host, I always recommend that
they send plain-text if they want to reach the widest audience.

Bill
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