ANNOUNCE: mailman 2.1 on kde.org

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 04 April 2003 15:34, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Please note that I updated mailman to 2.1 today (it took a bit
> longer than I expected unfortunately ;(
>
> This version handles the outgoing mail a bit differently and I also
> removed all custom patches we had applied to our old mailman
> (to make it easier to do updates).

Argh. This new mailman apparently adds mailing-list footers (like the 
one for the KMail mailing-list and the kde-pim ml) as text/plain 
message part unless a message is text/plain (in this case the footer is 
simply appended to the message body). This has two effects:
- The mailing-list footer is put into a frame in current KMail (because 
all text/plain attachments which are displayed inline are put into a 
nice frame to separate them from the message body and to make saving 
easy by providing the filename in the header of the frame). This looks 
a bit ugly and could be fixed by omitting the frame in case the 
text/plain message part doesn't have a (file-)name.
- PGP/MIME signed messages are now displayed as partly signed because 
multipart/signed messages are converted to multipart/mixed messages 
with a multipart/signed message part and a text/plain message part (the 
mailing list footer).

The first problem can easily be worked around. But the second problem 
can't be worked around since such a mangled message doesn't look 
different from a normal multipart/signed message with an unsigned 
attachment.

I'd very much appreciate if this IMO wrong behavior of mailman could be 
turned off. In the past mailman always simply appended the footer at 
the end of the message and as everything after the closing boundary of 
a multipart/* message is ignored this wasn't a problem. Of course the 
footer wasn't shown for multipart/* messages because of this. But I 
think that the new behavior is much worse.

Regards,
Ingo

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