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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Adam,

That's just plain cool.  I'm not quite sure I want to modify my install 
- one more thing to keep track of each time a new update comes through - 
but very cool.  Any chance you'll be submitting it upstream for 
inclusion in a future release?

Cheers,

Miles

Adam Bernstein wrote:
> Miles --
>
> > > is there some way to get a footer inserted so that it's visible 
> > > whether some one is looking at an html version of a message or a 
> > > text version?
>
> This isn't exactly what you asked, but if by any chance you mean "have 
> a footer added on all messages, whether they're sent in plaintext or 
> in HTML format", then that is something I created in our code.  To be 
> at all compliant with netiquette and various national laws, every 
> message really should have a footer with basic list info.
>
> The patch is quite pretty simple: I just define a third footer type, 
> "flex", and make it the default.  Then in the routine that adds 
> headers and footers, I first look at the Content-Type, and reset the 
> footer type to mime or append as appropriate.
>
> This isn't really the right way to do it, which is why I haven't 
> submitted it officially, but it's the easiest way I saw to work with 
> the existing Sympa code.  It requires editing two lines and inserting 7.
>
> Here's a context diff to the file List.pm:
>
> *** List.pm     Tue Apr 27 00:25:33 2010
> --- List.pm.mod Tue Aug 10 10:07:51 2010
> ***************
> *** 716,723 ****
>                               'internal' => 1,
>                               'group' => 'description'
>                               },
> !           'footer_type' => {'format' => ['mime','append'],
> !                             'default' => 'mime',
>                               'gettext_id' => "Attachment type",
>                               'group' => 'sending'
>                               },
> --- 716,723 ----
>                               'internal' => 1,
>                               'group' => 'description'
>                               },
> !           'footer_type' => {'format' => ['mime','append','flex'],
> !                             'default' => 'flex',
>                               'gettext_id' => "Attachment type",
>                               'group' => 'sending'
>                               },
> ***************
> *** 4463,4468 ****
> --- 4463,4476 ----
>
>       ## Msg Content-Type
>       my $content_type = $msg->head->get('Content-Type');
> +
> +     if ($type eq 'flex') {
> +       if (!$content_type || ($content_type =~ /^text\/plain/i) || 
> (($content_type =~ /^multipart\/mixed/i) && 
> ($msg->parts(0)->head->get('Content-Type') =~ /^text\/plain/i))) {
> +           $type = 'append';
> +       }else {
> +           $type = 'mime';
> +       }
> +     }
>
>       ## MIME footer/header
>       if ($type eq 'append'){


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