Hmm... I get PGP stuff as a separate attachment, which I have to
delete manually (since I don't have Eudora set to delete attachments when I
delete messages), and consider PGP signatures to be a nuisance. Why are
messages to this list PGP-signed at all?

        I'd be happy with a per-list option to return any postings with
encoding other than text/plain or text/quoted-printable(?); perhaps this
could run alongside the Sender/Reply-To filter that causes our bewildered
cc:Mail users so much trouble....

        I would definitely want text/html rejected on most of our lists,
even though it doesn't require base-64 decoding.

        A configurable list of rejected Content-Type values (which I would
probably configure to include text/html and multipart/signed) would be an
excellent 1.8d feature.


                                                Chris

At 10:53 AM -0500 03/11/98, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

>Hmm.. major wierdness... my mail *SHOULD* be showing up as a MIME
>message, of the following format:
>
>multipart/signed
>  text/plain   All the text is here
>  application/pgp-signature *only* the PGP signature is here.

>I'm of mixed feeling on the "prohibit attachments" aspect. This
>sounds like it needs a bit more work to be a useful general-case
>solution.  What (for instance) should you do with a multipart/mixed
>that contains only message/external-body references to FTP or HTTP?
>What if it's 4 body parts, all of the text/plain persuation?
>
>Maybe what you *REALLY* wanted is "reject any application/ attachment",
>Or perhaps you want a table of "known OK' application/ to allow to
>be passed.
>
>It could be that what you *really* wanted is "disallow message if
>any of the parts require base-64 encoding" (which would allow through
>my messages, and anything of several text/plain, but would stop
>people attaching Microsoft Word documents).
>
>I won't get into the text/html can of worms, other than to note that
>I see more complaints about *single* bodypart text/html than I do
>about attachments....

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