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HTML post only showing as attachment
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

I have a post come in that is in HTML and has an image attached. It is distributed fine to email subscribers. Hyperkitty shows a blank message, with the in an html attachment, and the image as a jpg attachment. Why doesn't the text show in Hyperkitty? So far, all other messages display correctly. Andrew

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Rich Text support in Hyperkitty
by Abhilash Raj July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Hi All, I have been recently working on adding rich text support through markdown in Hyperkitty so that emails can be made easier to read. The core design idea in my mind when working on this was building something that doesn't bother writers of plain text emails too much, but allows people to write emails in markdown. The supported syntax is limited Markdown, for example: Hyperkitty's Markdown Syntax ============================ - List items are supported - Even nested ones - Headers with `#` aren't supported, mostly due to their widespread use as comments in code shared on mailing lists. - You can **emphasize** text and _itcalize_ them too - Block code and `inline code` works. - URLs work like they usually do. - Images _do work_, but are disabled by default because of their potential for tracking users. They need to be enabled by administrators through a configuration flag. ``` def sample(): return "yay" ``` While text intentionally written for Markdown rending looks pretty good, plain text sometimes isn't as good. I have applied my branch[1] on both the Mailman installations for these two lists (mail.python.org & lists.mailman3.org) Any feedback or bug reports on weird looking stuff is welcome here or directly [on my PR][1] [1]: https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/merge_requests/160 -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

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Mandatory First and Last Name
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Is there a way to make the profile require users to fill out their name? Andrew

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Odd hold message
by Andrew Bernard July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

I received a very simple post today that was held with the following reason: The message is being held because: Message contains administrivia At your convenience, visit your dashboard to approve or deny the request. What is this all about? What does Mailman consider to be administrivia, of all things, and why is this a reason to hold a message? The only thing in the message I can see is that it mentioned '100 members'. Is Mailman becoming sentient and developing an attitude? Seriously, I'd like to know more about this. Andrew

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Images and rich content in hyperkitty
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

I see discussion about this topic here in July. My immediate interest is that I had hoped to move from an antique plain-text only list to modern list software that will support content such as inline images (partly to staunch the flow of subscribers to facebook, simply to be able to post pictures.) Does hyperkitty support this, and where can one read about that? Andrew

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Post confirmation
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

Some mailing lists have an intermediary step where when the user posts, an email is received frm the server asking them to confirm posting, or discard it. Some of my users feel this gives them the chance to not post something they may have composed in error, or regret, or changed their mind about something. Is it possible to configure this behaviour (I think from Listserv) in Mailman? Andrew

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Hyperkitty message threading
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

I am seeing some anomalies with message threading. without going into detail about the symptoms, first le me ask how does Hyperkitty thread messages? Is it based on the message-id in the header, guaranteed unique, or on the subject header? I appear to have a situation where people reply to a message, and then probably thinking to start a new thread, change the subject field., and them post. The message goes to the original thread. I cant stop people doing this as it seems the vast majority of people all over just hit reply for most things anyway as they are generally too lazy to start a new mail (drives me nuts). With this situation, where the subject has apparently been changed, Hyperkitty adds a not to the top of the post "New subject ...' which is what makes me think the message id is involved. Some of my subscribers say they do this all the time on the old Listserv mailing list and a new thread is started. Any help would be appreciated. It's difficult fro me to manually ressign the incorrectly threaded replies as there is no parent message to attach them to. Andrew

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Show number of subscribers
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

Would there be a way to show the number of subscribers to a list in the web UI? The number of participants per message is great, but this would be good too. My users seem very interested in this number. I guess they want to know how big the audience is that is reading their posts. Andrew

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opt in/out for hidden lists
by mailman3＠malevil.cc July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

Is it possible to change the default value for list visibility? Sometime when my list admins create a new list they forget to check that they should be hidden, I think that should be the default value anyway because its a potentially security issue when a list is unwanted visible...

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Documentation for users for Mailman 3
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

There exists this: https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%202.1%20Members%20Manual I cant find a version for Mailman 3. Does it exist? If not, i will volunteer to write/update it. Let me know. Andrew

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