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From: "Rynhart, Patrick" <address@concealed>
To: Steve Shipway <address@concealed>, "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
Cc: "address@concealed" <address@concealed>, kchamber <address@concealed>, address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] html footer
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:46:31 +1200

Thanks Steve. Will experiment with the approach that you've outlined below, especially since List.pm seems to have changed quite a lot from the time that the patch proposed at

https://sourcesup.renater.fr/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=7393&group_id=23&atid=170

was written.

It would be good if there is a reliable way to have an inline footer to be displayed via Sympa 6.X for "common" email clients (regardless of whether the original email was sent in HTML or plain-text) :-).

With Thanks,

Patrick

On 10/04/14 3:56 pm, Steve Shipway wrote:

Patrick said:

Isn't a simple solution for introduce a way to change the Content-Type on

the 'footer' multipart message to text/html ?

(I would think most modern clients would just render this beneath the main

part of the message - can't really see why

it would differ to the "text/plain" scenario being used at present.)

You can do this using the message.footer.mime file. By creating this file
(instead of message.footer) looking somewhat akin to the example below, you
can specify a content type and disposition, and so  get your footer created
as a separate text/html and text/plain pair in a  multipart/alternative ,
with the inline disposition set.  In theory, this should cause the footer to
be appended to the main message.

However, in Outlook 2013 at least, you instead get the two alternative
footers (text and html) displayed as attachments. 

In Yahoo webmail, it is correctly displayed with the two HTML portions (main
message and footer) inline.  Hooray, Yahoo have done one thing right this
week.  Gmail also display it inline as we wanted.

Of course, none of these footers are appended if you have an SMIME signed
message.

Steve

------cut example message.footer.mime here
-----------------------------------------
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_x_1234567890"
Content-Disposition: inline


--_x_1234567890
Content-Type: text/plain;
Content-Disposition: inline

 This is the message footer in text in the multipart file

--_x_1234567890
Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Disposition: inline

<HTML><HR />
 <B>This is the footer in HTML in the multipart file</B>
<HR /></HTML>

--_x_1234567890--
-------------- end message.footer.mime here -----------------------


Steve Shipway
address@concealed

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [sympa-users] html footer Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 21:38:38 +0000 From: Steve Shipway <address@concealed> Reply-To: Steve Shipway <address@concealed> To: address@concealed <address@concealed>, address@concealed <address@concealed>

>is there a possibility to add a footer in html-format to mails generated by
sympa?

I think the problem with HTML footers is that Sympa would not know where to
add them.

It can add a separate MIME-multipart section already, or can append a text
footer to a text message, but if you have an HTML footer, where does it go?
It cannot append it to an HTML message, is it would then be outside the main
HTML and BODY tags.  It would need some complex parsing to insert into the
middle of the HTML somehow, which may or may not work depending on the rest
of the HTML.

Setting footer type to MIME just makes the text footer get appended as a new
MIME multipart section.

I'd love to be able to add an HTML footer but I think it would require Sympa
to do some more complex HTML parsing and editing on the main HTML message
body.

Steve

Steve Shipway
address@concealed

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [sympa-users] html footer Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 10:01:58 +0200 From: Timon Roth (Weblaw AG) <address@concealed> Reply-To: <address@concealed> Organisation: Weblaw AG To: <address@concealed>

hello list

is there a possibility to add a footer in html-format to mails generated 
by sympa?

i tried this one like described in the documentation

http://its.virginia.edu/email/mailing-lists/sympa-faq.html#lo11

when i paste sone html-code in the field the footer ist nevertheless 
sent as plain/text.

i also added footer_type mime to the 
/var/lib/sympa/list_data/draft/config file but no changes.

cheers,
timon



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[sympa-users] html footer, Timon Roth (Weblaw AG), 04/09/2014
- RE: [sympa-users] html footer, Steve Shipway, 04/09/2014
  - Re: [sympa-users] html footer, Rynhart, Patrick, 04/10/2014
    - RE: [sympa-users] html footer, Steve Shipway, 04/10/2014
      - Re: [sympa-users] html footer, Rynhart, Patrick, 04/14/2014

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