Thanks, the big problem isn't so much the individual messages with
     WINMAIL.DAT or other attachments. It's the mess the attachment create
     inside a digest that is annoying our clients.

     Nuje


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Subject: RE: Ignoring attachments on Posted Mesages
Author:  [log in to unmask] at Internet
Date:    8/6/98 4:49 PM


Micheal,

    FYI the winmail.dat attachment is the RTF deffinitions.  It only contains
usefull info to clients that understand RTF (i.e. MS clients), the message
should be perfectly readable without it only no bold, itialics, color etc.

Jon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Smith [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 10:24 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:  Re: Ignoring attachments on Posted Mesages
>
>      Pete,
>
>      I've tried using a SizeLimitation, but the messages are so small
>      because it's really just MIME encoded text that is the attachment. The
>      current setting is SizeLim=250. The NOHTML setting sounds interesting
>      though.
>
>
>      I've had four types of attachments:
>
>      1. MIMEnnnn.RAW files. I believe these are generated by Microsoft Mail.
>         They are unreadable as far as I can tell, unless you have Microsoft
>         Mail
>
>      2. WINMAIL.DAT. Unreadable and generated by Exchange and Outlook as far
>         as I know.
>
>      3. Additional Text attachment containing HTML version of the text
>         message. Created by some e-mail packages. Can be removed using the
>         Language=NOHTML setting in v1.8d.
>
>      4. RTF attachment. Generated by some e-mail packages instead of the
>         HTML for text formatting.
>
>
>      In the following excerpt from the 1.8d docs, it notes that the NOHTML
>      setting will ignore the HTML attachment, but will not strip the
>      WINMAIL.DAT file. It probably wouldn't strip the .RTF and .RAW files
>      either.
>
>
>      Thanks,
>
>
>      Mike
>
>
>
>      1.8d Documentation Excerpt:
>           Language= NOHTML:  This setting allows you to specify that
>           LISTSERV strip any HTML attachments from postings (while
>           retaining HTML tags sent in the body of plain text
>           messages). You specify either Language= NOHTML or Language=
>           idiom,NOHTML to enable this feature.
>
>           The actual function of this setting is to remove the
>           attachment that contains the HTML mail from the message. It
>           does not remove HTML tags from plain text messages. This
>           means that setting this option will not suppress HTML in
>           messages sent from Eudora Pro (since Eudora Pro does not send
>           the HTML message as a MIME attachment with a plain text
>           alternative).  The setting also does not suppress HTML in
>           messages sent from current versions of Netscape Messenger if
>           the sender chooses the "Send in HTML mail only" option when
>           sending the message (because there is no alternate plain text
>           attachment for LISTSERV to use in that case).
>
>           Language= EXCHANGE: This setting allows you to specify that
>           LISTSERV keep Microsoft Exchange attachments in postings
>           (the default is to remove them). You specify either
>           Language= EXCHANGE or Language= idiom,EXCHANGE to enable
>           this feature. Note that this affects "application/ms-tnef"
>           attachments only-- LISTSERV does not currently strip
>           WINMAIL.DAT attachments.
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
_________________________________
> Subject: Re: Ignoring attachments on Posted Mesages
> Author:  Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
> Date:    8-6-98 12:20 PM
>
>
> Besides the feature that is available in LISTSERV 1.8d BETA
>
> * Language= NOHTML
>
> consider line-limitations e.g.,
>
> * Sizelim= 200
>
> That particular value works well on one list that I operate, but YMMV.  I
> suggest that you search your archives looking for the maximum size of
> your average postings, plus at what point (in terms of number of lines)
> your attachments to pop up.
>
> Pete Weiss @ Penn State