[Sysadmin] Unable to post to *@lists.evolt.org from polytechnic.co.uk

[Eric A. Meyer]

At 3:22 +0100 7/25/03, John Handelaar wrote:

>>  In the "Content filtering" section of mailman, there is an option
>>  called "pass_mime_types" and I have added multipart/signed to the
>>  list.  I've done this for most lists with the exception of thechat and
>>  css-d because I don't have access to them.
>
>I do...  and have done the same to both.
>
>Eric:  if your setting of 'text/plain and nothing else'
>was deliberate, please feel free to undo the changes I
>just made to normalise the MIMEtype settings with the
>evolt.org lists.  We were having trouble with Mailman
>effectively blackholing GPG signed messages;  Dean has
>localised the cause and found a fix here.

    Thanks for the heads-up.  I did have it set that way deliberately, 
but I'll leave the new setting in place for a while and see how it 
works out.  If we run into problems, I'll drop back to the more 
restrictive setting.

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