Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 23:01:19 +0200 (CEST) From: "Simon L.Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/53326: [patch] New handbook section about filtering on the mailing lists Message-ID: <20030614210119.1A64810BF8E@arthur.nitro.dk> Resent-Message-ID: <200306142110.h5ELAEdD074301@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>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: open
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>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 14 14:10:11 PDT 2003
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>Originator: Simon L. Nielsen
>Release: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
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>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 <david@catwhisker.org> 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 @@
</variablelist>
</sect2>
+ <sect2 id="eresources-mailfiltering">
+ <title>Filtering on the mailing lists</title>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>application/octet-stream</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>application/pdf</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>application/pgp-signature</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>application/x-pkcs7-signature</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>message/rfc822</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>multipart/alternative</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>multipart/related</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>multipart/signed</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>text/html</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>text/plain</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>text/x-patch</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>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.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="eresources-news">
--- doc-mailinglist-filtering.patch ends here ---
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