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Perhaps I've missed this in the doc's (but I don't think so).

How can I configure Mailman to convert an HTML post into plain text?

When a member post from Hotmail or Yahoo in HTML format I end up with a
.html attachment and two .txt attachments (for the list header and
footer) which makes it very difficult to read messages on portable
devices.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Bill Suarez

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  • Brad Knowles at Jul 15, 2007 at 1:35 am

    On 7/14/07, Bill Suarez wrote:

    Perhaps I've missed this in the doc's (but I don't think so).
    The official "List Administration Manual" at
    <http://www.list.org/mailman-admin/index.html> is incomplete. It
    effectively stops at section "2.9 The Archiving Options Category"
    (URL: <http://www.list.org/mailman-admin/node26.html>), and what
    you're looking for would be covered in section "2.12 The Content
    Filtering Category".

    The updated version of this manual is being worked on, and what's
    been done so far can be found at
    <http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Mailman+2.1+List+Administrators+Manual>.
    How can I configure Mailman to convert an HTML post into plain text?
    Go to the web admin page for your list. Go to the "Content
    Filtering" section. Scroll down to the bottom, and where it says
    "... convert text/html parts to plain text?", you make sure that the
    radio button is set to "Yes". If not, set it to "Yes", then click
    the "Submit Your Changes" button at the bottom of the page.
    When a member post from Hotmail or Yahoo in HTML format I end up with a
    .html attachment and two .txt attachments (for the list header and
    footer) which makes it very difficult to read messages on portable
    devices.
    Hopefully, this will solve your problem.

    --
    Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>, Consultant & Author
    LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>
    Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4>

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  • Bill Suarez at Jul 15, 2007 at 2:37 am
    Thanks Brad, I'll give that a shot.

    Appreciate the guidance.

    Bill

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad at shub-internet.org]
    Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:36 PM
    To: wsuarez at wsuarez.com; mailman-users at python.org
    Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Format conversion
    On 7/14/07, Bill Suarez wrote:

    Perhaps I've missed this in the doc's (but I don't think so).
    The official "List Administration Manual" at
    <http://www.list.org/mailman-admin/index.html> is incomplete. It
    effectively stops at section "2.9 The Archiving Options Category"
    (URL: <http://www.list.org/mailman-admin/node26.html>), and what you're
    looking for would be covered in section "2.12 The Content Filtering
    Category".

    The updated version of this manual is being worked on, and what's been done
    so far can be found at
    <http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Mailman+2.1+List+Administrators+Manual>.
    How can I configure Mailman to convert an HTML post into plain text?
    Go to the web admin page for your list. Go to the "Content Filtering"
    section. Scroll down to the bottom, and where it says "... convert
    text/html parts to plain text?", you make sure that the radio button is set
    to "Yes". If not, set it to "Yes", then click the "Submit Your Changes"
    button at the bottom of the page.
    When a member post from Hotmail or Yahoo in HTML format I end up with
    a .html attachment and two .txt attachments (for the list header and
    footer) which makes it very difficult to read messages on portable
    devices.
    Hopefully, this will solve your problem.

    --
    Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile:
    <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks:
    <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4>

    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

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