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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Christopher Cain <cc...@mhsoftware.com> on 2001/07/13 21:26:17 UTC
OT - HTML dev-list filter?
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
HTML filtering on tomcat-dev
Posted by Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>.
Hello apmail gods,
Will you please apply the same HTML filtering that is on turbine-dev to
tomcat-dev?
thanks,
-jon
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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:24:44 -0700
To: Christopher Cain <cc...@mhsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: OT - HTML dev-list filter?
I don't know how but I'd +1 it.
Actually I do know how, sort of -- ezmlm-make has an option -x that
configures it with "extras" including html rejecting. But I'm not
sure how to apply it to a running list. ezmlm is kind of unfriendly.
Read through the ezmlm FAQ for info. One annoying thing I remember is
that if you're using virtual hosts you have to specify where the
config file is so you can change some cryptic line in it...
- A
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:38:13PM -0600, Christopher Cain wrote:
> Is there any way I can talk someone into implementing Jon's HTML-filter
> on the Tomcat Dev list? AFAIK there were no objections to the idea
> itself. Does someone with the appropriate access (Pier, Craig, Jon?)
> maybe have a few minutes to look into it? Granted it's not an urgent
> priority, but it sounds like something that would be quick and easy to
> implement, especially since Jon's been running it on the Turbine lists.
> Pretty please ... I'll dance at your wedding =)
>
> - Christopher
>
> Jon Stevens wrote:
> >
> > on 7/13/01 12:26 PM, "Christopher Cain" <cc...@mhsoftware.com> 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
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Re: OT - HTML dev-list filter?
Posted by gu...@stinky.com.
I don't know how but I'd +1 it.
Actually I do know how, sort of -- ezmlm-make has an option -x that
configures it with "extras" including html rejecting. But I'm not
sure how to apply it to a running list. ezmlm is kind of unfriendly.
Read through the ezmlm FAQ for info. One annoying thing I remember is
that if you're using virtual hosts you have to specify where the
config file is so you can change some cryptic line in it...
- A
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:38:13PM -0600, Christopher Cain wrote:
> Is there any way I can talk someone into implementing Jon's HTML-filter
> on the Tomcat Dev list? AFAIK there were no objections to the idea
> itself. Does someone with the appropriate access (Pier, Craig, Jon?)
> maybe have a few minutes to look into it? Granted it's not an urgent
> priority, but it sounds like something that would be quick and easy to
> implement, especially since Jon's been running it on the Turbine lists.
> Pretty please ... I'll dance at your wedding =)
>
> - Christopher
>
> Jon Stevens wrote:
> >
> > on 7/13/01 12:26 PM, "Christopher Cain" <cc...@mhsoftware.com> 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
--
Alex Chaffee mailto:alex@jguru.com
jGuru - Java News and FAQs http://www.jguru.com/alex/
Creator of Gamelan http://www.gamelan.com/
Founder of Purple Technology http://www.purpletech.com/
Curator of Stinky Art Collective http://www.stinky.com/
Re: OT - HTML dev-list filter?
Posted by Christopher Cain <cc...@mhsoftware.com>.
Is there any way I can talk someone into implementing Jon's HTML-filter
on the Tomcat Dev list? AFAIK there were no objections to the idea
itself. Does someone with the appropriate access (Pier, Craig, Jon?)
maybe have a few minutes to look into it? Granted it's not an urgent
priority, but it sounds like something that would be quick and easy to
implement, especially since Jon's been running it on the Turbine lists.
Pretty please ... I'll dance at your wedding =)
- Christopher
Jon Stevens wrote:
>
> on 7/13/01 12:26 PM, "Christopher Cain" <cc...@mhsoftware.com> 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
Re: OT - HTML dev-list filter?
Posted by Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>.
on 7/13/01 12:26 PM, "Christopher Cain" <cc...@mhsoftware.com> 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