370091 - HTML only messages sent via lists server become blank messages on newsgroups

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations: Projects, task)

Description

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

If a person sends an 'HTML only' message to one of the mailing lists on lists.mozilla.org, it shows up as a blank message (0 lines) in the corresponding newsgroup.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This only happens if your client actually creates an empty text/plain section instead of sending only a text/html.  If text/html is the only section in the message, it gets converted to text, but if there are both text and html sections in the email, the html part is just dropped.

Comment 2

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Dave, I've sent three messages to [e-mail], and included you and I in the CC header on the third. From the message that appeared in my Inbox, there is no empty text/plain section (that I can tell); but the message appears as empty in the mozilla.test newsgroup.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.test/msg/80b94211b35588e5

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

hmm, yep, seems to be broken.  Probably a bug in mailman's html to text converter.  I'm planning to upgrade mailman soon anyway, we need a newer version for other reasons, too.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

how's this working now that we have the new version of mailman?

Comment 5

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

The bug is still there.
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.test/msg/d5a9a1ab7ab341da>

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

yeehah.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I had a couple more sample messages sent to me, and I noticed a pattern.  "multipart/related" has now been added to the allowed types list.  Can someone who was seeing this test this out again?

Comment 8

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Still not fixed.
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.test/msg/b19e3ab3da13bc9a?dmode=source>

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, more tweaks, try again.

Comment 10

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Looks fixed.
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.test/msg/2460d5c0d1aec13d?dmode=source>

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I turned off the HTML->text converter. :|

Oh well.  Guess most clients deal with it nowadays.