At 10:32 AM 12/9/99 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote:

While were on the subject, I have a dream too, people not sending HTML encoded mail to the list. ;)

Your dream is perhaps much nearer to realization than a JZope implementation. :) Ty recently wrote a Python de-HTML/de-attachmentizer which we use to sanitize incoming e-mail to IDS. I am officially authorizing the donation of the current version of that code for y'all to use, especially if you'll turn it into a Mailman patch that can then benefit other Mailman users. The de-attachmentizer recursively converts all parts of a MIME message to text, correctly handling all the various multipart/* variants. It throws away winmail.dat and other common MS yuckies, as well as leaving behind text notations describing the binary attachments that were removed. If it finds an HTML part that has no plain text alternative, as a last resort it uses Python's HTML-to-text functions to crudely format it. No HTML which is identified as such in any mail header will survive intact, and nothing which is not text will survive at all. :)