From simon@arthur.nitro.dk Sat Jun 14 14:01:21 2003 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADCF37B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE80443F85 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A64810BF8E; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:01:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20030614210119.1A64810BF8E@arthur.nitro.dk> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:01:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Simon L.Nielsen Reply-To: Simon L.Nielsen To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: [patch] New handbook section about filtering on the mailing lists X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 X-GNATS-Notify: >Number: 53326 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [patch] New handbook section about filtering on the mailing lists >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 14 14:10:11 PDT 2003 >Closed-Date: Sun Jun 15 09:25:35 PDT 2003 >Last-Modified: Sun Jun 15 09:25:35 PDT 2003 >Originator: Simon L. Nielsen >Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: Lately I have several times seen email's where people have tried to attach files to the FreeBSD mailing lists, but where the attachments have been stripped by the mailing lists software. Therefor I thought it would be nice with some documentation about which types of attachments are allowed on the FreeBSD mailing lists. I have made a section describing this, based input from David Wolfskill with his postmaster@freebsd.org hat. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- doc-mailinglist-filtering.patch begins here --- Index: eresources/chapter.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.123 diff -u -d -r1.123 chapter.sgml --- eresources/chapter.sgml 21 May 2003 16:35:12 -0000 1.123 +++ eresources/chapter.sgml 14 Jun 2003 20:50:47 -0000 @@ -1202,6 +1202,76 @@ + + Filtering on the mailing lists + + The &os; mailing lists are filtered in multiple ways to + avoid spam, viruses, and other unwanted emails to be + distributed on the mailing lists. The filtering actions + described in this section does not cover all the filtering + mechanisms used to protect the mailing lists. + + Only certain types of attachments are allowed on the + mailing lists. All attachments with a MIME content type not + found in the list below, will be stripped before an email is + distributed on the mailing lists. + + + + application/octet-stream + + + + application/pdf + + + + application/pgp-signature + + + + application/x-pkcs7-signature + + + + message/rfc822 + + + + multipart/alternative + + + + multipart/related + + + + multipart/signed + + + + text/html + + + + text/plain + + + + text/x-patch + + + + + Some of the mailing lists might allow attachments of + other MIME content types, but the above list should be + applicable for most for the mailing lists. + + + If an email contain both a HTML and a plain text version, + the HTML part will be removed. If an email contain only a + HTML version, it will be converted to plain text. + --- doc-mailinglist-filtering.patch ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dannyboy State-Changed-When: Sun Jun 15 09:25:11 PDT 2003 State-Changed-Why: Added with minor tweaks; thanks. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=53326 >Unformatted: