[plug] HTML mail (partial flame and suggestions)

[James Devenish]

In article <415D215D.9050603 at tigris.org>, Tim White wrote:
> > An alternative is to filter all mail on the server to convert HTML
> > to plain text,
> Would doing this solve lots of problems though? Especially if an HTML 
> exploit is sent from a subscribers address, there are going to be some 
> people on the list using Outlook because they don't know any better. I 
> know this should be addressed on the client end but after reading the 
> stuff below as well I am thinking that filtering all emails through 
> 'lynx -dump' or 'html2txt' or something similar may be benifitial on 
> more than one way.

It is true that Mailman already includes a feature to do this (it can
strip out the HTML part if a corresponding plain-text part is present,
then convert any lone HTML parts to plain text). Of course, this can at
times result in an unfaithful reproduction of what the sender sent to
the list. But I'm not inclined to be the one to put my foot down and
modify the list to use this feature given the current lack of feedback
from others.