Re: [Exim] Translation issues in email from this list

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:35:32AM -0800, Pat Lashley said:
> --On Wednesday, February 25, 2004 16:25:23 +0000 David Woodhouse
> <dwmw2@???> wrote:
>
> >TBH I think it would be better just to reject text/html and
> >multipart/alternative destined for the lists at SMTP time.
>
> Or better yet, just leave them alone. I can't think of a single
> good reason for the list to be stripping them. (Yes, the list
> should be checking for and rejecting malware and spam. But the
> wholesale MIME stripping seems to do more damage than good.)

Maybe because HTML / Mime in mailing lists causes all sorts of problems
with archives, digests, etc???

Mime / HTML email has no place on any mailing list. Period. It's best to
reject them outright.