[nycbug-talk] Mailman SMIME handler note

[Isaac Levy]

Hi All,

Bob, George, and I all had a talk with regard to regular use of PGP 
and, Bob expressed frustration with SMIME handlers in Mailing List 
software, (expressing his preference for MIME-attached PGP and GPG 
keys, instead of the messy text)

Anyhow, after discussing some MailMan hacks, I dug around the Mailman 
source and then read the Documentation with the current source, and 
found that somebody already wrote a fix-
Just thought I'd post this info to the list, so any new and future 
mailman lists can be all cool and friendly with SMIME handlers and not 
strip/mung up SMIME attached keys.



 From $mailmanSource/NEWS

<snip>
     - Mail handling
         o Content filtering now has a pass_mime_type variable, which
           is a whitelist of MIME types to allow in postings.  See the
           details of the variable in the Content Filtering category
           for more information.
<snip>

         o Content filtering now has a filter_action variable which
           controls what happens when a message matches the content
           filter rules.  The default is still to discard the message.
<snip>



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