If this affects me, then there is a good chance that it affects someone else as well. I have no control over the firewall that my main email address goes through. I have no control over which email address I use the majority of the time. The mailing lists produce too many messages. When I select to receive the digest mailing list, there is no option to choose mime or plain text. When I receive the digest email, it is just a list of attachments and a message explaining that each has been removed because it has a .eml extension. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Subscribe to digest mailing list using gentoo-user-subscribe-digest@gentoo.org Actual Results: I recieve a digest email with a list of messages that have been stripped out because of having a .eml extension. Expected Results: I originally expected that I would recieve a plain text digest, which is what I am used too with most mailing lists. I just found out that a bug report for such a thing was possible. If it affects one person, then it likely affects others. A plain text digest is more compatible with overzellous corporate and military mail filters.
Created attachment 121696 [details] Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 1200 (65178-65227) This is an example email I recieve from the gentoo-user digest.
Existing mlmmj works like this. 1. The main header specifies multipart/digest. 2. For each message inside that, there is a header of message/rfc822, filename=$ID.eml 3. Directly include the file from the archive at this point, without any modification. If you could consult with your netadmins as to what filenames they will permit, that's the only change that's really affectable at the moment. Unless you've got the foo and time to rewrite the digester portion of mlmmj (unlikely to happen, as it will greatly increase the amount of processing needed) As an alternative, I suggest you get a non-firewalled account somewhere that you can use procmail, sub it to the list, and make it convert the mime form into the text form and forward on to your .mil address.
(In reply to comment #2) > Existing mlmmj works like this. <snip> > As an alternative, I suggest you get a non-firewalled account somewhere that > you can use procmail, sub it to the list, and make it convert the mime form > into the text form and forward on to your .mil address. At the moment, I don't have the time or skill to rewrite the mailling list deamon, however I may be able to set up a mail filter at some point like you suggest. I will investigate this option. Thank you for your response.
you may also have some luck with a ML watcher like gmane.org.
maybe mlmmj will support it one day...
