on 7/13/01 12:26 PM, "Christopher Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with list managing software myself, so I'll ask some of
> you who are. Is there any decent way of bouncing HTML-formatted messages
> from the lists (or at least this one)? Another OSS project I am involved
> in bounces multipart messages on its user list, which has the
> side-effect of rejecting mails with attachments as well. Obviously that
> wouldn't work for a dev list, but could a slightly more involved filter
> check specifically for an HTML mime header and bounce those?
>
> I will assume that the reasons why HTML e-mails suck is fairly common
> knowledge, so I won't belabor the point. I assume that there would be no
> objections to having such a thing in place, although with the Tomcat
> list you never really know, do you? =)
>
> - Christopher
ezmlm has a way to just filter out the text/plain. The only thing that I
believe it rejects is attachments of text/html. We do this on the turbine
lists and it hasn't been a problem.
-jon
