Dual text/plain multipart/alternative content

Dual text/plain multipart/alternative content

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

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Sorry for the off-topic post.  Starting 9/17 on this list, I'm seeing 
dual text/plain parts for multipart/alternative emails.

I'm guessing the original text/html part is being autoconverted by a 
mailing list filter.  Unfortunately, the output of the filter is not 
pretty and my mail client is choosing to display the autoconverted part.

Would it be possible to revert this change to the mailing list?

Thank you,

-Kevin

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Re: Dual text/plain multipart/alternative content

[Ian Kelling]

Kevin J. McCarthy <kevin@8t8.us> writes:

> Sorry for the off-topic post.  Starting 9/17 on this list, I'm seeing 
> dual text/plain parts for multipart/alternative emails.
>
> I'm guessing the original text/html part is being autoconverted by a 
> mailing list filter.  Unfortunately, the output of the filter is not 
> pretty and my mail client is choosing to display the autoconverted part.
>
> Would it be possible to revert this change to the mailing list?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Kevin

Yes, its being converted. We upgraded the mailing list server a few
months ago and accidentally disabled the conversion and re-enabled it
recently about a month ago. I just sent another message to the list
discussing this, where I explained why my feeling is that we should
continue converting html for this list.

The conversion command it uses is /usr/bin/lynx -dump
with version 2.8.9 of lynx.

A quick web search and I found that other people prefer the output of
links or elinks over lynx. If you or anyone would like to do a little
research on this and recommend a different conversion program, I'd be
happy to install and switch to it (note, this will affect hundreds of
other email lists for gnu and nongnu packages).

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Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation
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Re: Dual text/plain multipart/alternative content

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:05:21PM -0400, Ian Kelling wrote:
>Yes, its being converted. We upgraded the mailing list server a few 
>months ago and accidentally disabled the conversion and re-enabled it 
>recently about a month ago.

Thank you for confirming the change.

>I just sent another message to the list discussing this, where I 
>explained why my feeling is that we should continue converting html for 
>this list.

I agree with the sentiment towards html email expressed in that message, 
and don't wish to argue *for* html email on this list.  My only regret 
is that the conversion is being done when there is already a text/plain 
part, resulting in an ambiguous choice for the mail client.

It might be preferable if the text/html part could simply be dropped 
when there is a text/plain alternative.

However, I understand there are trade-offs in all directions, and your 
decisions affect hundreds of mailing lists, where everyone has a 
different opinion.  :-)

By the way, the mailing list footer is being properly appended outside 
the multipart/signed.  So for text-only emails, a signature is not 
broken.

-Kevin

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