[LINK] Eudora email moves to open source

[Ivan Trundle]

Apologies, I was seeing wrap in Mailman archives (not in delivered  
mail).

However, as you rightly point out, whilst Mailman *does* have the  
capacity to modify mail, it is 'benign'. Subject line alterations are  
the most obvious, of course.


On 14/11/2006, at 5:34 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:54:51PM +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> But Mailman wraps at 75 chars, too, does it not?
>
> nope. mailman doesn't line-wrap mail.
>
> aside from the optional message-length limits and the (also  
> optional) ability
> to reject mail with certain types of attachments (such as images)  
> or to strip
> off certain attachments (such as html), it does minimal munging of  
> either the
> message headers or body.
>
> that's because list managers, like mail transfer agents, aren't  
> supposed to
> modify the mail that they're forwarding.
>
> craig
>
> -- 
> craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)
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