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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

> Does Sympa not attach footers to HTML or dual-format mail?

If you choose the MIME footer type, it will attach the footer to all 
messages, but if you choose the append type, it will append only to 
plaintext messages and do nothing to HTML or multipart messages.  This 
is a terrible behavior, as you always want a footer of some kind, and 
everybody wants them appended (not attached) whenever possible, right?

So I cooked up a third footer type I call "flex" that just chooses 
between append and MIME (attach) based on the type of the incoming 
message.  I think I've submitted that to the Sympa bugtracker at some 
point, but maybe not.  At the moment I'm in the middle of trying to 
upgrade our Sympa code from 5.1.2 to 5.2.4, so I can't provide the most 
useful patch right now.

(There should also be a way to have a mandatory default footer for every 
list, giving at a minimum the list name and unsubscribe instructions, 
and I did submit a patch for that but it was an ugly hack and didn't fit 
with the Sympa plans for templating the footers.)

     adam