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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Adam,

Adam Bernstein wrote:
> Is there a reason that Sympa is configured not to attach footers to
> messages with multipart/alternative MIME type?  

Yes there is a reason :
Adding a footer to a multipart/alternative message implies one of the
following for Sympa depending on the type of appending :
        1/ adding a MIME part
        Sympa should encapsulate the multipart/alternative within a 
multipart/mixed
        structure. Here is what it would look like :
                multipart/mixed
                        multipart/alternative
                                text/plain
                                text/html
                        text/plain (footer)
        We should first check that all MUA will cope with that...

        2/ Appending a footer :
        Sympa should add both a text/plain and text/html footer (because it
        is an alternative structure, you can't guess what will be the user's
        preferred format). Adding to the text/plain part is no problem, BUT
        adding text to the text/html part implies that :
                * footer text in in HTML format
                * Sympa is able to parse the HTML structure of the document
                to add the footer at the right place



> I've just discovered
> that this is the type that MS Outlook uses instead of multipart/mixed
> to send its HTML-formatted messages (don't ask me why), which means
> that most of my users will get no footer when composing in Outlook,
> which is bad.  I want to eliminate this condition, but not if it's going
> to mess something up.

A solution would be that Sympa makes messages single-part (ie: applying the 
"text"
and "html" subrscriber reception mode to the whole list).

> Also, here's a related suggestion:  In general, one wants message footers
> and headers to be included in-line, assuming plain text messages.  But
> with footer type set to "append", nothing gets attached when a user decides
> they want to send in HTML for a change.  

Here is the same problem as related above...

> What we really want is a condition,
> perhaps a third header/footer type setting, that always appends to plain
> text messages but attaches to multipart messages, no?  At least that's what
> I want; if nobody else does, I will add it.

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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites