Re: [Mailman-Users] TXT attachments

2003-10-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Krause, Uwe wrote: Not only Outlook ... try to get a EUR through the list ... I assume you mean you have your list configured for German (ISO-8859-1) but then send an email with a Euro sign character (ISO-8859-11) to the list. This is one special case where I think Mailman should not assume t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Icelandic

2003-10-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
e interested in starting an Icelandic translation! Thanks for your efforts. Ben Gertzfield -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman puts footer in MIME attachment

2003-10-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Mark Koek wrote: Hello list, After I added some lines to the footer of my list run by Mailman 2.1, it has started converting the list messages (plain old text only) into multipart/mixed MIME messages, with the footer in a separate text/plain attachment. Subscribers are complaining because not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kevin McCann wrote: Thanks, Ben. I had initially been thinking this was strictly an Outlook problem, too. But I became skeptical as I realised that there are still two big questions: 1) Why do these same Outlook clients not have problems receiving attachment-less messages with footers from other M

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kevin McCann wrote: Isn't the solution to just insert the footer as a plain text message part before sending? Something like: --_=_NextPart_000_0149566.27838596 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Here's my groovy footer The HTML content is in it's own message section,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kevin McCann wrote: FWIW,I experience the same problem as jsmith and my preferred language setting is US English. I'm at mm 2.1.2, sendmail, RH 8.0). I have had to configure my lists to have no footers in outgoing mail. Otherwise, incoming messages with HTML cause the footer to be appended as an a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
jsmith wrote: I have sent a post similar to this previously but it has been a while. At home I am using outlook. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en jsmith, Here's your problem. This email is flagged as using the UTF-8 character set (Unicode). I'll guess your list

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP me for chinese subject in mailman 2.1 please!

2003-08-24 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 10:19 AM, Ares Liu wrote: When I use chinese subject, mailman 2.1 will get an error as follow: LookupError: unknown encoding: gb2312 How to solve this error? Make sure you have the Chinese codecs for Python installed. You can get them from: http://sourceforge.ne

Re: [Mailman-Users] running nimda test

2003-08-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
chris weisiger wrote: i didnt know if there was a way to test mailman to detect the nimda virus...since there was a tests folder... ive been trying to google for information but i havent come across anything really about testing... Mailman cannot detect email viruses. You can use an external

Re: [Mailman-Users] running nimda test

2003-08-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
chris weisiger wrote: i noticed the nimda test virus in the Mailman tar.gz file how do i test Mailman using the nimda test file? That file is actually only in the Mailman source code as a way to exercise the email parser package's MIME handling code; Nimda virus emails have particularly bad MI

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umlaut in message bodies are omitted

2003-06-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Bausch, Jean wrote: I have now found who swallows the Umlauts in message bodies: I had inserted a 'fmt -s -w 80' in the mail aliases. Unfortunately on Solaris 7 this command erases the Umlauts. Interesting. You can try changing that to LANG=de_DE fmt -s -w 80 to make sure Solaris can handle

Re: [Mailman-Users] footers

2003-06-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
CodyG wrote: You're right! It is something in the mail client that isn't showing the footers! Cause for sure they are there in the message source. (I should have checked.) So, what is the use of footers if someone using OE defaults doesn't see them? But how could it be a mailer issue, when the fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Normal mails changed to MIME mail

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Matthias Juchem wrote: When sending an absolute normal e-mail (simply one word in the subject and one word in the body) to both servers, the older one distributes it fine. The newer one generates a MIME attachment that includes the body content. Sounds like the list is set for one language,

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with different chatsets (footer getsattached if different)

2003-01-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Sebastian Talmon wrote: I'm sorry, but with this path the headers are set correct, but MS Outlook still shows the footer as a pseudo-Attachement (giving it the name ATT00010.txt or so) Then it's definitely an MS Outlook bug, and there's not a whole lot we can do until Mailman gets fully inte

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with different chatsets (footer getsattached if different)

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Sebastian Talmon wrote: * Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Are there really so many people out there who are using non-MIME-compliant mail readers that this is necessary? yes, there are some people out there using MS Outlook or so... there the footer is not shown in the messag

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with different chatsets (footer getsattached if different)

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Sebastian Talmon wrote: I think a good solution for this would be, to do just the same as with the us-ascii-footer on this list: to switch the whole message to the 'higher' charset and then integrate the footer as normal... For a us-ascii-Message it should be no problem to have a ISO-8859-1-Char

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with different chatsets (footer getsattached if different)

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Sebastian Talmon wrote: on my lists (Mailman 2.1, language: DE) I have the problem that: - if the user send with charset="iso-8859-1" anything is fine - if user sends with charset=us-ascii (some mailers do if there are no german umlauts) then the footer from the mailinglist gets attached an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: unicode-Chinese fonts?

2002-11-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Sam Li wrote: Hello, I am wondering if mailman support unicode in Subject for showing Chinese character? Mailman 2.1 beta supports both Traditional Chinese (big5 encoding) and Simplified Chinese (gb2312) in the web and email interfaces. The pipermail web archiver that comes with Mailman 2.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Side Includes

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 12:44 , Richard Barrett wrote: > Surely, if you are using the built-in pipermail archiver, you can also > set a list's archive to private on the Archive Options web GUI admin > page. The list archives are then not available through the /pipermail/ > URI path elem

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Side Includes

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 11:30 , Timothy Murphy wrote: > While I am an enthusiastic user of mailman, > doesn't majordomo still have a well-defined usage, > for essentially private lists like committee minutes? > > This is a genuine question -- > am I right in assuming that mailman lists are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem in 2.1b1's contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py

2002-04-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 03:53 , Bill Wagner wrote: > When passing mail through qmail-to-mailman.py, lines 87 and 88 point to > $prefix/mail/wrapper. I've done plenty of test installs of 2.1b1, but > in > none ofthem is there ever a $prefix/mail/wrapper. This has been fixed in CVS, I bel

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman can't handle MIME:Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable?

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "James" == James Madill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> Users of one of my mailing lists got a nasty surprise when James> a posted message was repeatedly sent to them. James> I traced the problem down to an instance of the standard James> End-Of-Message marker (a lone pe