GNU Mailman

Footer on top of html email

Asked by Allison Gaul

Hello,

I am using Mailman 2.1.9. Everything is going great with one little problem. I am sending a MIME type HTML email to an admin address that delivers to the rest of the list. The MM footer is appearing at the top of the email instead of the bottom. I found this statement online: In order for Mailman to add a footer and add
it to the message 'body', the incoming post must be a simple
text/plain message, not HTML or multipart/alternative or you must set
content filtering to make it so.

So I have been messing around with the content filtering but still the footer is on top. Can someone advise me on how to setup the content filtering so that the MM footer is actually a footer?

Thanks much!
Allison

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Best Mark Sapiro (msapiro) said : 		#1

See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/84A9> for more on this issue.

You could try setting the following in Content filtering:

filter_content: Yes

filter_mime_types: (empty)

pass_mime_types:
  multipart
  text/plain
  text/html

collapse_alternatives: Yes

convert_html_to_plaintext: Yes

However, if you are deliberately sending an HTML message because you want the HTML formatting, this will remove it so it won't be satisfactory.

However, I don't know why the footer would appear on top in any case since the footer is added as a separate MIME part at the end of the message. What is the structure of the message? What is the MUA (mail client) used to view the message?

Or perhaps this is a cPanel or other modified Mailman that attempts to add the footer to the HTML part itself and is running afoul of the issue discussed in the FAQ as the reason why standard Mailman doesn't do this.

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Allison Gaul (gaula) said : 		#2

Thanks for your help Mark. I do need it to be html so what I going to do is incorporate the footer information in my html email and wipe out MM's footer. That way it is placed properly and all users have access to the information. Thanks again for the help!
Allison