Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Sorry for responding so late to your mail...

We have been warned, quite recently, that there were problems when using
external-body content-type with Outlook, Eudora3 and Pegasus.

We wonder if any equivalent content-type is supported by the Mail Clients.
If not, I suppose we can just forget about external-body and use a simple
text/plain MIME part...

Tilman Mueller-Gerbes wrote:

> I am currently using Sympa for a new mailing list server and in the
> process I have come across an minor issue.
> 
> One of the main features used is URLIZE delivery mode (that is storing
> attachments on the server and not distributing to recipients).
> 
> Strange thing (indeed ;): M$ Outlook does not support the external-body
> MIME type used for delivering the attachments (at least the versions I
> tested).
> 
> I have (as a quick hack) therefore modified Sympa (List.pm) to not only
> add the external-body attachments but also append all generated URLs as
> an additional footer.
> 
> These footers than get displayed correctly as URLs in Outlook (as it
> parses text/plain parts for URLs).
> 
> Might this be useful or did I overlook something and this could be done
> differently?
> [...]
> BTW: I really like Sympa for its simplicity but powerful features.
> Extending its functionality was straightforward. Keep up the *very* good
> work.

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités