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  • From: Jason Laster <address@concealed>
  • To: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <address@concealed>
  • Cc: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] message.footer not accepting non mime options
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:44:59 -0600

No, Roger, it is not you who was missing something. I made the mistaken
assumption that any additional configuration parameters not specifically
listed as an option must be added as a custom variable. Changed the three
lines to your suggestion below, and it works as expected. Thanks for
pointing that out!

Jason


On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:

Am I missing something? Why are you creating a footer_type custom_var? Why
aren't you just specifying

footer_type append

in the list's config?

On 6/18/10 9:15 PM, Jason Laster wrote:
> Additional investigations have turned up that in spite of setting the
> footer_type variable Sympa is ignoring this.
>
> In the config file of my virtual list I have the following
> ----snip from config----
>
> custom_vars
> value append
> name footer_type
>
> ----end snip---
>
> So it should assign footer_type==append, however this is not the case. If
> I change the default variable to append in List.pm it works as expected.
>
> ----snip from List.pm----
>
> 'footer_type' => {'format' => ['mime','append'],
> 'default' => 'append',
> 'gettext_id' => "Attachment type",
> 'group' => 'sending'
> },
>
> ----end snip----
>
> Any Thoughts on this. I can simply hack the .pm file, but I'd rather have
> this as an option on a list by list basis.
>
> Jason
>
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Jason Laster wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I'm working to setup Sympa 6.0.1 on my Debian system with virtual
> domains. I have run into a snag where it appears that Sympa is not
> acknowledging the footer_type option. No matter what this custom parameter
> is set to it only attaches the footer as a mime attachment. What am I
> missing in the setup?
>
> In the config file for this virtual domain I have the following:
>
> custom_vars
> value append
> name footer_type
>
> However it does not acknowledge it apparently since it continues to attach
> the footer text as a mime attachment.
>
> the body an example message is below if it helps:
>
> -----snip-----
> Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1276769658-9259-3"
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format...
>
> ------------=_1276769658-9259-3
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> footer below here
>
> ------------=_1276769658-9259-3
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; name="message-footer.txt"
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message-footer.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> this is a footer
> I hope it comes through
>
> ------------=_1276769658-9259-3--
> -----snip-----
>
> Jason Laster
>
>
>






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