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[Chris Hastie <address@concealed>]

The attached tarball contains a collection of patches and a couple of 
new files that together add a new reception option, 'digestplain', to 
Sympa. The patches are against 4.0.b2.

The 'digestplain' reception option generates a digest of messages in a 
plain text format. All attachments are stripped out. The message uses a 
Content-transfer-encoding of 8bit and any quoted-printable or Base64 
text parts are converted. The character set used is ISO-8859-1. It works 
fairly well with English language lists. I suspect it will be not too 
bad with most Western European languages, vaguely usable for languages 
tending to use a charset in which the 7 bit characters are based on 
us-ascii and pretty useless for anything else.

I've kept most of the work in a separate file, MyPlainDigest.pm, to aid 
maintainability of patched systems as new versions of Sympa are released 
without incorporating this patch. To that end, you may also wish to keep 
modified templates beneath your sympa/etc rather than sympa/bin/etc 
directory.

The patches are one per file because I find it easier to keep track of 
what I'm doing that way, and I never really got the hang of generating 
diffs for multiple files anyway. They include support for setting the 
reception mode to 'digestplain' using both the web interface and mail 
commands. Help files for both mail and web are covered, but in English 
only - translations I'll have to leave to others more qualified.

Hope it's of use to some of you.
--
Chris Hastie

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