help me bend Mailman to my will!
February 10, 2011 8:22 PM Subscribe
How do I enable people on a Mailman list to send common (MS Office, PDF, etc) attachments in their email to others on the list?
Currently I have content filtering turned off... which seems to mean all attachments get discarded.
I know that I need to go into the content filtering menu, enable it, and set up the content filter and/or pass filter, but I can't seem to find a decent help document that lays out clearly what I have to put in each to allow attachments to go through. The help documentation mentions the MIME types but I can't seem to find a comprehensive list, or a way to check that I've formatted them correctly, including multipart in there.. somewhere?
I don't want it to munge email if people happen to have graphic or html footers (the problem I had last time I tried figuring this out.)
As you can tell, I'm not a UNIX person, I'm just trying to maintain a Mailman mailing list without a mutiny. Please help!
(otherwise I'm sorely tempted to junk the list and move htem to a googlegroup)
Currently I have content filtering turned off... which seems to mean all attachments get discarded.
I know that I need to go into the content filtering menu, enable it, and set up the content filter and/or pass filter, but I can't seem to find a decent help document that lays out clearly what I have to put in each to allow attachments to go through. The help documentation mentions the MIME types but I can't seem to find a comprehensive list, or a way to check that I've formatted them correctly, including multipart in there.. somewhere?
I don't want it to munge email if people happen to have graphic or html footers (the problem I had last time I tried figuring this out.)
As you can tell, I'm not a UNIX person, I'm just trying to maintain a Mailman mailing list without a mutiny. Please help!
(otherwise I'm sorely tempted to junk the list and move htem to a googlegroup)
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multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
text/plain
text/html
application/octet-stream
application/pdf
application/msword
It also excludes some more common virusy types with filter_filename_extensions set to ...
exe
bat
cmd
com
pif
scr
vbs
cpl
An official list of MIME types is available at the IANA site.
posted by Monsieur Caution at 8:51 PM on February 10, 2011