[mapguide-internals] Mailing list changes

[Paul Spencer]

Wimps ... Plain text rules!  HTML emails suck ... convert the  
world ... bwaahhhaaahahhahaaaaa

:-)

Paul

On 2-Feb-07, at 4:51 PM, Tom Fukushima wrote:

> Retract, retract...let's not roll this out.  Having to explicitly send
> in plain text is bad; I thought our mail server would convert  
> everything
> to plain text automatically.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of  
> Robert
> Bray
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:31 PM
> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
> Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Mailing list changes
>
> I seem to be having trouble finding that option to use "vi" as my e- 
> mail
> editor of choice...
>
> Tom Fukushima wrote:
>> Yes, let's roll it out.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of  
>> Jason
>
>> Birch
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:28 AM
>> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
>> Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] Mailing list changes
>>
>> OK, it stripped my PDF attachment (probably because of Outlook  
>> again),
>
>> and the html file attachment was mangled.
>>
>> Can we live with not allowing PDF (from Outlook anyway) or HTML
>> attachments on the users list?
>>
>> I'd be happy with this; if users really want to get something  
>> through,
>
>> they can rename to .txt.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of  
>> Jason
>
>> Birch
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 09:53
>> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
>> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Mailing list changes
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This list is now set up with filters that only allow certain mime
>> types and convert text/html to plain text.
>>
>>
>> text/plain
>> text/html
>> text/xml
>> image/gif
>> image/png
>> image/jpeg
>> application/pdf
>> application/x-pdf
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, if your mail application sends php files as
>> application/octet-stream (like my braindead Outlook 2003) you have to
>> rename them to .php.txt before attaching them.
>>
>> This message tests html->plaintext translation as well as attachment
>> types.  If it is successful, I'll post an announcement to the -users
>> list and apply the same settings there.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> Sorry about all the attachments...
>>
>>
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